SUBWAY TRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subway train mean? 

• SUBWAY TRAIN (noun)
  The noun SUBWAY TRAIN has 1 sense:

1. a train that runs in a subway system

  Familiarity information: SUBWAY TRAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBWAY TRAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A train that runs in a subway system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("subway train" is a kind of...):

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

 Context examples 

I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)