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HOSPITAL TRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospital train mean? 

HOSPITAL TRAIN (noun)
  The noun HOSPITAL TRAIN has 1 sense:

1. a military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospitalplay

  Familiarity information: HOSPITAL TRAIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOSPITAL TRAIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hospital train" is a kind of...):

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)


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