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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does locomotive engineer mean?
• LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER (noun)
The noun LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER has 1 sense:
1. the operator of a railway locomotive
Familiarity information: LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The operator of a railway locomotive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
engine driver; engineer; locomotive engineer; railroad engineer
Hypernyms ("locomotive engineer" is a kind of...):
manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)
Instance hyponyms:
Casey Jones; John Luther Jones; Jones (United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900))
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