What is another word for tunnels?

Pronunciation: [tˈʌnə͡lz] (IPA)

Tunnels are underground passageways that allow us to travel from one point to another but aren't restricted to only underground workings. There are several synonyms for tunnels, including subways, passages, catacombs, shafts, and burrows. Subways refer to tunnels that allow trains or other vehicles to glide beneath the earth. Passages are tunnels that provide a way to navigate through a space, such as a fortress or castle. The catacombs are tunnels that function as underground burial places. Shaft is a smaller tunnel going underground. Finally, burrows are tunnels created by animals such as rabbits or moles. Each of these terms signifies a different kind of tunnel.

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Usage examples for Tunnels

Under the snow they burrow, making long tunnels, still eating and sleeping on their loved cushions of frozen plants, far under the snow-skirts of Mother Earth, while the life-stilling blasts without expend their wintry force.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The length of the ascent is nearly 16 miles over which there are 26 tunnels with a length of 2,500 yards, eight viaducts, many smaller bridges.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don't you play no secret games.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Tunnels

  • There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.
    Charles Guggenheim
  • Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
    Harold Larwood
  • Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!
    Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.All beliefs are reality tunnels, to use Anton Wilson’s phrase.Magic is having a plan of all the tunnels, and seeing the overall condition in which they all work. Being aware of different possibilities.
    Alan Moore
  • I worked at the Smithsonian for a number of years.In those days, you could go anywhere, which you can't do now. You could get in behind the scenes and wander along these tunnels.
    Elizabeth Hand

Related words: tunnel, underground, subterranean, subways

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