Subway system
Subway system noun - An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city).
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Transportation and subway system are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Transportation" instead a noun phrase "Subway system".
Transportation
Transportation noun - A means of getting to a destination in a vehicle driven by another.
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Synonyms for Transportation
Subway system and transportation are semantically related. You can use "Subway system" instead a noun "Transportation".
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In the Carl Sagan novel Contact and the movie based on it, an unknown ancient race of aliens built the "cosmic subway system" of wormhole transportation used to bring a single human to meet the successor aliens who inherited the system.
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