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railway

noun

rail·​way ˈrāl-ˌwā How to pronounce railway (audio)
: railroad
especially : a railroad operating with light equipment or within a small area

Synonyms

Example Sentences

a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation
Recent Examples on the Web From Przemysl, there are direct trains to the farthest reaches of Ukraine on railway lines that have continued to function. Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022 Iran has some 8,700 miles of railway lines throughout the country that's about two and a half times the size of Texas. Nasser Karimi, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022 Belarus controls the railway lines offering the most direct, cheapest and fastest route for large volumes of grain out of Ukraine to Klaipeda and other Baltic ports. New York Times, 1 June 2022 The Allies betrayed her by declining to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz. Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022 So far, wifi connectivity has been set up at 6,102 railway stations in all. Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 July 2022 Nearly five months of war has damaged the structures that keep cities working — factories, airports, railway stations — and obliterated residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches, and shopping malls. Maria Varenikova, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022 Nearly five months of war has damaged the structures that keep cities working — factories, airports, railway stations — and obliterated residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches and shopping malls. New York Times, 5 July 2022 For the ardent and affluent, the frontier states beckoned with looser laws and new railway stations. Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 28 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1681, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of railway was in 1681

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