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# subway

«subway» in Mova's school dictionary: **In the USA and Canada, an underground railway in a city…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a subway, subways)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In the USA and Canada, an underground railway in a city, like the New York subway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#m1)

2) In the UK, Ireland and Australia, a path or tunnel under a road for people to walk through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in New York or Toronto, people ride the subway to school and work. In road safety lessons in the UK, a subway is a safe way to cross a busy road. Phrases: take the subway, subway station, subway train.

### examples

- We took the subway to the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x1)
- The subway station is two blocks away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x2)
- Hold an adult's hand on a busy subway platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x3)
- In London, the underground railway is called the Tube, not the subway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x4)
- Use the subway to cross the main road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x5)
- The subway was crowded in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/#x6)

### note

Countable. Meaning depends on the country: in the USA a train under the city; in the UK a walkway under the road. London's underground railway is "the Underground" or "the Tube". Safety: stand behind the line on platforms.

### In the corpora

- [pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarine, subway).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/20/)
- [Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «subway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.