RAILYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railyard mean? 

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

1. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAILYARD (noun)

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:

railway yard; railyard; yard

Hypernyms ("railyard" 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 "railyard"):

marshalling yard (a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded)