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Nouns denoting man-made objects. Hypernyms (public transit is a kind of...): transit; transportation; transportation system (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods) Meronyms (parts of public transit): transit line (a line providing public transit) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of public transit):
Transit means âjourney,â and saying youâre in transit means youâre on your way somewhere. Before we had cell phones, one of the upsides of being in transit was that no one could get in touch with you. Transit may be familiar to you from the phrase mass transit. The first instance of transit being used in this sense was in the 19th century, and people have been complaining ever since. Transit is related to the word transition, which refers to a change from one state or condition to another.