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1. (US) An underground, intraurban passenger railway.
2. (Brit.) An underground pedestrian passageway sometimes containing building maintenance and service elements.

As a way to travel to one's destination underground, a subway may symbolize the dreamer's reaching a goal through unconscious methods.

• Types of Trains, Cars, and Lines - subway: underground municipal railway, usu. electric; underground
• Trolleys - subway: underground trolley or municipal railway, usu. electric
• Roadways and Driving - subway: Chiefly Brit. underpass beneath street
• Urban Structures and Phenomena - subway: underground electric railway

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Subway may refer to:

• Subway (rail), an underground rapid transit system also known as a metro, underground, T-bane, MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), tube, or U-Bahn
  • For a list of individual subway systems, see the list of metro systems
• Subway (underpass), an underground walkway, usually a tunnel
• Subway (restaurant), franchise selling "submarine" sandwiches
• Subway (canyoneering), a canyon in Zion National Park
• Subway (film), a 1985 movie by Luc Besson
• Subway (group), a 1990s R&B group
• "The Subway" (Seinfeld), an episode of the TV series Seinfeld
• The Subways, a British rock band
• "Subway", a sixth season episode of Homicide: Life on the Street

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - undergrundsbane, undergrundstog, s-tog

Nederlands (Dutch)
ondergrondse, metro, onderdoorgang

Français (French)
n. - métro, passage souterrain

Deutsch (German)
n. - U-Bahn, Untergrundbahn, Unterführung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (Βρετ.) υπόγεια διάβαση, (ΗΠΑ) υπόγειος σιδηρόδρομος, μετρό

Italiano (Italian)
metropolitana, sottopassaggio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - metrô (m)

Русский (Russian)
тоннель, подземный переход, метро

Español (Spanish)
n. - metro, metropolitano, ferrocarril subterráneo, paso subterráneo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tunnelbana, tunnel, gångtunnel, underjordisk ledning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
地道, 地铁

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 地道, 地鐵

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 지하도, 지하철, 발

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 地下鉄, 地下道

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نفق للمشاة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תחתית, רכבת תחתית, מנהרת-חצייה‬

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