railway
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
railway (plural railways)
- (chiefly UK, Ireland and Commonwealth) A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland and Commonwealth) A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 14–15:
- His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested in railways. Over a thousand miles of them opened between 1837 and 1845, most of what would become the national network. [...] You needed an Act of Parliament to build a railway; but that wasn't very hard to obtain if you could give the appearance of adequately funded competence.
Synonyms edit
- (track): railroad track, railway track, railway line, rails
- (system): (US) railroad, rail
- rwy, RY, Ry., ry (abbreviations)
Derived terms edit
- aerial railway
- atmospheric railway
- cash railway
- cliff railway
- cog railway
- elevated railway
- funicular railway
- heritage railway
- light railway
- mineral railway
- model railway
- rack railway
- railwayac
- railwayana
- railway bridge
- railway carriage
- railway company
- railway gun
- railwayist
- railway key
- railwayless
- railway line
- railwayman
- railway sleeper
- railway spine
- railway stamp
- railway station
- railway tie
- railway time
- railway track
- railway train
- railway vehicle
- railway wrapper
- rope railway
- ship railway
- street railway
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- underground railway
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Translations edit
track, consisting of parallel rails
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transport system using these rails
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
railway m (plural railways)
- (Anglicism) railway
- Synonym: chemin de fer
Further reading edit
- “railway”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.