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subwayless

subwayless adjective: without a subway.

Adjective

subwayless (not comparable)

  1. Without a subway.
    • With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.1952, LIFE, volume 32, number 1, page 20
    • Change is coming faster and faster in our technology, so there isn't a chance in the world that our cities of 1999 will be any more like today's cities than were the autoless, subwayless, skyscraperless, air conditioning-less almost elevatorless cities of 1899.1970, Henry George News, volume 33, page 67

Origin of subwayless

From subway + -less.

Questions about subwayless

What does subwayless mean?
Subwayless means without a subway.
What part of speech is subwayless?
Subwayless is an adjective.

Words near subwayless in the dictionary

  1. subway-surfaces
  2. subwayed
  3. subwayer
  4. subwayers
  5. subwaying
  6. subwayless
  7. subways
  8. subweapon
  9. subweapons
  10. subweb
  11. subwebs

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