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s | subway |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun subway is

(north america|scotland) an underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.

As a verb subway is

(intransitive|us|informal) to travel by underground railway.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    subway

    English

    (wikipedia subway)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (North America, Scotland) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
  • (US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way.
  • (British) underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

    • Synonyms

    (underground railway) * metro * tube * underground (rapid transit system) * rapid transit (underground walkway) * underpass

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 13, author=Melissa Clark, title=From Paris, With Hustle, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops. }}

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