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metro — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • subway noun An underground railway system used for urban public transport.

Senses

metro is used for these senses in English:

  • rapid transit A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.
  • subway (North America, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.
  • subway (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
  • subway (British) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

subway — full definition

  1. noun An underground railway system used for urban public transport.
  2. noun An underground pedestrian tunnel or walkway.

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