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railway

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Etymology

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Fromrail +‎way.

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railway (pluralrailways)

  1. (chiefly UK, Ireland and Commonwealth) A transport system using rails used to movepassengers orgoods.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 onrailway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
  2. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Philippines and Commonwealth) Atrack, consisting of parallelrails, over whichwheeledvehicles such as trains may travel.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, pages14–15:
      His interest inrailways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested inrailways. 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 arailway; but that wasn't very hard to obtain if you could give the appearance of adequately funded competence.

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track, consisting of parallel rails
transport system using these rails
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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ.lwɛ/ ~/ʁe.lwɛ/

Noun

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railway m (pluralrailways)

  1. (Anglicism)railway
    Synonym:chemin de fer

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