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rwy.

rwy. is the abbreviation of raceway.

rwy. is the abbreviation of railway.

rwy. is the abbreviation of rollway.

rwy. is the abbreviation of runway.

Meaning of raceway

Noun

raceway (plural raceways)

  1. A place where races are held; a racetrack.
  2. An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling.
  3. The canal for the current that drives a water wheel.

Meaning of railway

Noun

railway (plural railways)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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
    Synonyms:
    rail, railroad
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, Philippines, UK) 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

Forms of rwy.

pluralrwys.

Questions about rwy.

What is rwy. the abbreviation of?
Rwy. is the abbreviation of raceway.

Words near rwy. in the dictionary

  1. RWNJ
  2. RWNJs
  3. RWR
  4. RWS
  5. rwy
  6. rwy.
  7. rwys.
  8. rx
  9. Rx burn
  10. Rxb.
  11. RxJS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rwy. (page history and authors); raceway (page history and authors); railway (page history and authors). 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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