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An underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway
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underpass
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, American English, from under + pass (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A road or a pedestrian passage in a tunnel that runs underneath a road or railroad.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE pedestrian ▪ The exhibit runs through February 16 at the center, south of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway, east of Park Avenue. ▪ The Center is located south of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway, east of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway [syn: subway ]
Usage examples of underpass.
In the perspectives of the plaza, the junctions of the underpass and embankment, Talbot at last recognized a modulus that could be multiplied into the landscape of his consciousness.
It was one of the underpass kids, the scroungy runaways I kept my distance from.
They drove nine blocks down Rockaway Parkway, then through an underpass under the Belt Parkway and around a circle to a broad cobblestone pier sticking out into Jamaica Bay.
Geological Survey map they had brought, they were stopped under the Schockoe Slip underpass, a stone arch bridge that once connected the city proper to the Kanawaha Canal.
He went into a large department store and took an escalator up to the toy department, which was dominated by a huge electric train display-green plastic hills honeycombed with tunnels, plastic (rain stations, overpasses, underpasses, switching points, and a Lionel locomotive that bustled through all of it, puffing ribbons of synthetic smoke from its stack and hauling a long line of freight carsBB1.
I kept it there as I drove past the School Book Depository, through Dealey Plaza and beneath the triple underpass.
But all those people, all those faces, those lost souls sleeping near railroad tracks and under underpasses and on loading docks.
They covered the loading docks and the railroad tracks, the underpasses and the back alleys, as they always did.
They were built for motoring speed, these thoroughfares, with underpasses and overpasses instead of crossroads.
The strangest thing was the geometry, or lack of it -- for everywhere and on all levels, walls met at odd, asymmetrical angles, passages branched between buildings, roadways curved beneath underpasses to emerge in a different direction, and nothing seemed to run square to anything else, anywhere.