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subway-surface

  • /ˌsʌb.weɪ̯ ˈsɝːfɨs/
  • [ˌsəb.wej ˈsɚ.fɪs] US
  • [ˌsʌb.wej ˈsɝː.fɨs] UK
  • [ˌsʌb.we̞j ˈsəː.fəs] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˌsab.wej ˈsɜ.fɐs]

noun subway-surfaces

  1. US Streetcar lines whose sections in the city center operate in tunnels like subway lines; typically built to speed up streetcar service by bypassing congested streets, as provision for future conversion to rapid transit, or both.

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noun streetcar line or network with a rapid transit-style city center tunnel

Françaisprémétro
DeutschStadtbahn

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@misc{subway_surface_2026,
  title = {subway-surface},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/subway-surface},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}