Antonyms for subway
ˈsʌbˌweɪsub·way

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1. • Railway
   • Tunnel

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1. metro, tube, underground, subway system, subwaynoun

   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'"

   Synonyms:
   resistance, metro, electron tube, underground, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, underpass, subway system, thermionic tube, tube

2. underpass, subwaynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   underground, metro, subway system, tube, underpass

How to use subway in a sentence?

1. Lucas Acosta:

   I was just on my way to eat with a friend, but we had to cancel everything. Theres no subway, nothing is working.

2. Keri Gans:

   Typically, tuna sandwiches are very high in calories and saturated fat, but this one from Subway has less than 500 calories and 4.5 grams saturated fat.

3. David Paterson:

   For the first time in my life – even in the late ‘80s and ’90s when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year – I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around and God forbid, sometimes we take the subway home from WABC, and you’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day.

4. Rana Abdelhamid:

   You can be attacked at any point. You can be pushed off ... of a subway ledge.

5. Malcolm Reiman:

   You would walk down the subway steps every day, and all you could smell was urine; it was littered with muggers and mentally-ill people everywhere, subways were truly terrifying places.

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