English-Portuguese translations for subway

• metro
  O mesmo sucede com os carros particulares, por um lado, e os carros eléctricos e o metropolitano, por outro. The same goes for private cars on the one hand and trams and subways on the other hand.
  No ano passado, foi lançada uma campanha na Cidade do México, na qual se recorreu aos bilhetes de metropolitano para promover o direito à adopção por casais homossexuais. Last year, a campaign was launched in Mexico City on subway tickets aimed at promoting the right of homosexual couples to adopt.
  É importante existirem transportes públicos que funcionem bem a preços módicos e que os autocarros, eléctricos e metropolitanos circulem com frequência.This makes it important that an efficient public transport system should exist, at a reasonable cost, and that buses, trams and subways should run at short and regular intervals.
• passagem subterrânea

Definition of subway

• An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
• A train that runs on such an underground railway
• A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way
• An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc
• To travel by underground railway

Related words

• subway train
• subway station
• subway line