RAILWAYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railwayman mean? 

• RAILWAYMAN (noun)
  The noun RAILWAYMAN has 1 sense:

1. an employee of a railroad

  Familiarity information: RAILWAYMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAILWAYMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee of a railroad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

railroad man; railroader; railway man; railwayman; trainman

Hypernyms ("railwayman" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railwayman"):

brakeman (a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes)

signalman (a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard)

yardman (worker in a railway yard)

train dispatcher; trainmaster; yardmaster (a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard)