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RAILWAY YARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does railway yard mean?
• RAILWAY YARD (noun)
The noun RAILWAY YARD has 1 sense:
1. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Familiarity information: RAILWAY YARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("railway yard" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railway yard"):
marshalling yard (a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded)
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