Term Gallery logo

Meanings of underground railway in English

Portuguese
underground railroad
Catalan
underground railroad
Spanish
ferrocarril subterráneo

Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War.

underground railroad

An electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels.

Synonyms
Examples for "Underground Railroad"
Examples for "Underground Railroad"
1
The Underground Railroad was another project which involved large numbers of whites.
The Black Experience in America
2
This Underground Railroad was not a railroad, and it was not underground.
This Country of Ours
3
The Underground Railroad is one sentence in one paragraph in our history books.
Ebony
4
It includes more than 40 historically significant sites related to the Underground Railroad.
Ebony
5
Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained.
The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrativ...
Usage of underground railway in English
1
The house vibrated to the trains in the adjacent underground railway.
The Soul of a Bishop
2
They have a regular system there, the Germans-anunderground railway to Mexico City.
Dangerous Days
3
Farm-house was a underground railway station all right, and the farmer showed fight.
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
4
By this you may shine even in the appalling gloom of the underground railway.
The Divine Fire
5
The preferred route for Auckland's billion dollar CBD underground railway system has been released.
Radio NZ
6
That was the underground railway that ran thousands of farmers out of occupied territory.
A Matter of Proportion
7
It's like going round in the underground railway- aviciouscircle.
The Divine Fire
8
By easy stages we smuggled him along our underground railway to the Carmel refuge.
The Iron Heel
9
Passing northward, one observes Westminster Bridge, notable as a principal station of the underground railway.
My Discovery of England
10
Bradenton was a conductor on one of the underground railway systems by which fugitives moved.
The stand
11
Most noticeably, there was the three-day strike by workers on the city's metro underground railway.
The Irish Times
12
Women are becoming tramway conductors, and there is talk of their working the underground railway.
Paris War Days: Diary of an American
13
The underground railway stations did a great business while the raids were on; also bomb-proof basements.
The U-boat hunters
14
We came back on the underground railway and we travelled first-class-thatbeing the highest class available.
Tono-Bungay
15
Protesters ripped down a metal fence at an underground railway construction site to build a barricade.
Reuters
16
Later that night police stormed an underground railway carriage and hit passengers with batons and pepper spray.
News.com.au
This collocation consists of:
Translations for underground railway
Underground railway through the time
Underground railway across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common