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railwaylike

railwaylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a railway.

Adjective

railwaylike (comparative more railwaylike, superlative most railwaylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a railway.
    • Then Jock would come skating straight down with his horse almost on its haunches, leaving long railwaylike lines behind him, and nearing the bottom would gradually ease out his horse, and shoot away till he came to some other obstruction.1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Plain or Ringlets?

Forms of railwaylike

comparativemore railwaylike
superlativemost railwaylike

Origin of railwaylike

From railway + -like.

Questions about railwaylike

What does railwaylike mean?
Railwaylike means resembling or characteristic of a railway.
What part of speech is railwaylike?
Railwaylike is an adjective.

Words near railwaylike in the dictionary

  1. railwaydom
  2. railwayish
  3. railwayist
  4. railwayists
  5. railwayless
  6. railwaylike
  7. railwayman
  8. railwaymen
  9. railways
  10. railwaywoman
  11. railwaywomen

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