railway

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rail=way

CIDE DICTIONARY

railway, n. 

•  A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.  [1913 Webster]

  " The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway."  [1913 Webster]
•  The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.  [1913 Webster]

  " Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States."  [1913 Webster]

  " In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: --"  [1913 Webster]

  "[In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was usually used.]"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

railway, n.
1 a track or set of tracks made of steel rails upon which goods trucks and passenger trains run.
2 such a system worked by a single company (Great Western Railway).
3 the organization and personnel required for its working.
4 a similar set of tracks for other vehicles etc.

Idiom

railway-yard the area where rolling-stock is kept and made up into trains.

THESAURUS

railway

L, branch, cable railway, cog railway, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, feeder, feeder line, gravity-operated railway, horse railway, junction, light railroad, line, main line, metro, monorail, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, roadbed, roadway, sidetrack, siding, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground

ROGET THESAURUS

railway

Method

N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.