Definitions for subway

Overview of noun subway

The noun subway has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway

(an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'")

2. underpass, subway

(an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway)