railway
/ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/
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Australia/ˈɹæɪlˌweɪ/
railway noun: a transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
Noun
railway (plural railways)
- A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
- 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...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
- 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...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 14–15
- Synonyms:
- railline, rail line, railroad line, railroad track, rails, railtrack, rail track, railway line, railway track, train track
railway meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
railway in Hindi
- transport system using these rails
- रेलवे relve
railway in Tamil
- இருப்பு வழி
railway in Marathi
- रेल्वे, रेल्वेमार्ग
railway in Urdu
- transport system using these rails
- ریلْوے relve, راہ آہَن rāh āhan, راہِ آہَن rāh-i āhan
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- railway in Bengali
- রেলপথ relpoth
- railway in Telugu
- రైల్వే railvē
- railway in Malayalam
- റെയിൽവേ
- railway in Kannada
- ಕಂಬಿದಾರಿ, ಹಳಿಹಾದಿ, ಹಳಿದಾರಿ, ರೈಲು ದಾರಿ
- railway in Punjabi
- ਰੇਲਵੇ
- railway in Gujarati
- રેલવે relve
- railway in Odia
- ରେଳପଥ, ରେଲୱେ, ରେଳବାଇ
- railway in Nepali
- रेलवे, रेल
- railway in Pashto
- اوسپنليکه ospənlika, خط آهن xte āhan
- railway in Tagalog
- daang-bakal, perokaril
- railway in Arabic
- سِكَّة حَدِيدِيَّة sikka ḥadīdiyya, سِكَّة حَدِيد sikkat ḥadīd, سِكَّة الْحَدِيد sikkat al-ḥadīd
- railway in Malay
- jalur kereta api
- railway in Indonesian
- jalur kereta api, perkeretaapian, rel, rel kereta
- railway in Thai
- การรถไฟ gaan-rót-fai, รถไฟ rót-fai
- railway in Vietnamese
- đường sắt, đường ray
- railway in Myanmar
- သံလမ်း samlam:, မီးရထား mi:ra.hta:
Examples of railway in a sentence
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 14–15:
Synonyms of railway
- rail
- railroad
- railline
- rail line
- railroad line
- railroad track
- rails
- railtrack
- rail track
- railway line
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Forms of railway
| plural | railways |
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Origin of railway
From rail + way.
Words formed from railway
- aerial railway
- antirailway
- atmospheric railway
- cash railway
- cliff railway
- cog railway
- elevated railway
- funicular railway
- heritage railway
- interrailway
- light railway
- mineral railway
- model railway
- nonrailway
- non-railway
- parkway
- prerailway
- rack-and-pinion railway
- rack railway
- railwayac
- railwayana
- railway beetle
- railway bridge
- railway buff
- railway carriage
- railway company
- railway crossing
- railwaydom
- railway gun
- railwayish
- railwayist
- railway key
- railwayless
- railwaylike
- railway line
- railwayman
- railway signal
- railway sleeper
- railway spine
- railway stamp
- railway station
- railway tie
- railway time
- railway track
- railway train
- railway truck
- railway vehicle
- railway wagon
- railwaywoman
- railway wrapper
- rope railway
- ship railway
- street railway
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- underground railway
- zigzag railway
Phrases with railway
- railway guns
- railway keys
- railway ties
- railway buffs
- railway lines
- railway poplar
- railway stamps
- railway tracks
- railway trains
- railway trucks
- railway wagons
- railway beetles
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Questions about railway
- What does railway mean?
- Railway means a transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
- What is railway in Hindi?
- Railway in Hindi is रेलवे (relve). See Railway meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use railway in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is railway?
- Railway is a noun.
- How do you pronounce railway?
- Railway is pronounced /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of railway?
- The plural of railway is railways.
Words near railway in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: railway (page history and authors); railway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); railway (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); railway (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); railway (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); railway (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); રેલવે (Gujarati) (page history and authors); railway (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); railway (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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