Thesaurus results for RAILWAY

railway

noun

ˈrāl-ˌwā

Definition of railway

as in road

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation

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Recent Examples of railway The old bridge built in 1937 carries a railway line as well as cars and trucks, but vehicle traffic can move only one way at a time. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 That decades-old bridge carries a railway line as well as cars and trucks, but vehicle traffic can move only one way at a time. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Steam engines came into common use in the nineteenth century and electricity in the early twentieth, but their full potential was not realized before the completion of railways, highways, and power grids decades later. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 The city now known as Thunder Bay, where the railway meets the Great Lakes, became a hinge point in that economy. — Sara Llana, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for railway

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At the height of the incident, DeKalb fire crews blocked two right lanes of I-85 southbound and the entire access road next to it.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The Wildcats improved to 6-1 with a win at Oklahoma, which marks their third road win in the conference.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

After its railroad industry collapsed in the ’60s, local business leaders quite literally reinvented Leavenworth to draw tourists, framing the mountain town as an alternative to the Alps.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2026
But the tribe was forced out during the Gold Rush and, decades later, a railroad was built along the river in this verdant stretch of Humboldt County.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026