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 →

2) In the UK, Ireland and Australia, a path or tunnel under a road for people to walk through. tree →

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 →
• The subway station is two blocks away. tree →
• Hold an adult's hand on a busy subway platform. tree →
• In London, the underground railway is called the Tube, not the subway. tree →
• Use the subway to cross the main road. tree →
• The subway was crowded in the morning. tree →

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).
• Under big cities, electric trains run in tunnels called the Underground, the Tube, the metro or the subway.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «subway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.