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1. (n.) railway
a railroad using lightweight equipment or operating over short distances.
2. railway
a line of rails forming a road for flanged-wheel equipment.
3. railway
Chiefly Brit.
Etymology: (1770–80)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system
line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
2. (noun) railroad track, railroad, railway
a line of track providing a runway for wheels
"he walked along the railroad track"
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1. (noun) railway
a track on which trains travel
warnings to keep off the railroad
2. railway
a company that operates trains
railroad executives
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| Definition of 'Railway' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Railway
a road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure
2. (noun) Railway
the road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver
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Sense: a track with (usually more than one set of) two (or sometimes three) parallel steel rails on which trains run
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 Afrikaans: trein |
 Arabic: خَط سِكَّة حَديد |
 Bulgarian: жп линия |
 Brazilian: ferrovia |
 Czech: železnice; železniční |
 German: die Eisenbahn; Eisenbahn. |
 Danish: jernbane; jernbane- |
 Greek: σιδηρόδρομος |
 Spanish: vía; línea de ferrocarril |
 Estonian: raudtee |
 Farsi: راه آهن |
 Finnish: rautatie |
 French: (de) chemin de fer |
 Hebrew: רַכֶּבֶת |
 Hindi: रेलमार्ग |
 Croatian: željeznička postaja |
 Hungarian: vasút |
 Indonesian: jalan kereta api |
 Icelandic: járnbraut |
 Italian: ferrovia |
 Japanese: 鉄道 |
 Korean: 철도(선로) |
 Lithuanian: geležinkelis |
 Latvian: dzelzceļš |
 Malay: landasan kereta api |
 Dutch: spoorweg |
 Norwegian: jernbane |
 Polish: linia kolejowa |
 Persian: راه آهن |
 Pashto: دكټارو ميلي |
 Portuguese: caminho de ferro |
 Romanian: (de) cale ferată |
 Russian: железная дорога |
 Slovak: železnica; železničný |
 Slovenian: železnica |
 Serbian: železnica |
 Swedish: järnväg |
 Thai: รางรถไฟ |
 Turkish: demir yolu |
 Taiwanese: 鐵路 |
 Ukrainian: залізнична колія |
 Urdu: ریل کی پٹری |
 Vietnamese: đường sắt |
 Chinese: 铁路 |
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