mass rapid transit

1. 1.

   an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains

   Synonymsrapid transit

   Broaderpublic transit

Questions about mass rapid transit

What does mass rapid transit mean?

mass rapid transit means "an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains".

What is another word for mass rapid transit?

Close synonyms include rapid transit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mass rapid transit a common word?

mass rapid transit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.