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Railwayman

Definition: Railwayman

Railwayman

Noun

1. An employee of a railroad.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "railwayman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonyms: Railwayman

Synonyms: railroad man (n), railroader (n), railway man (n), trainman (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: railroader (transportation), railway employee, railway servant.

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Usage Frequency: Railwayman

"Railwayman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Railwayman" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3657,479

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Railwayman

Language Translations for "railwayman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punonjës hekurudhash, pronar hekurudhe (railroader). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏العامل بالسكة الحديدية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

железничар (railroader, railway official). (various references)

   

Czech

  

železnièář. (various references)

   

Danish

  

jernbanetjenestemand (railway employee, railway servant), jernbanemand (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spoorwegfunctionaris (railway employee, railway servant), spoorwegemployé (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

French

  

cheminot, agent du chemin de fer (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

German

  

Eisenbahnbediensteter (railway employee, railway servant), Eisenbahnbedienstete (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σιδηροδρομικός υπάλληλος (railway employee, railway servant), σιδηροδρομικός (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vasutas (railroad worker, railroader, railway employee). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ferroviere (railroader). (various references)

   

Manx

  

obbree raad yiarn (plate-layer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailwaymanray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

agente ferroviário (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

feroviar (railway). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

железнодорожник (railroader). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

železničar (railroader). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ferroviario (railroader), ferrocarrilero (railroader), agente ferroviario (railway employee, railway servant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

järnvägstjänsteman, järnvägsman. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

demiryolu memuru, demiryolu işçisi (navvy, platelayer, railroader). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

зализничний путівник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Railwayman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-m-n-r-w-y"

-2 letters: laminary, malarian.

-3 letters: laminar, laniary, malaria, railway.

-4 letters: airman, airway, amarna, animal, lamina, lawman, layman, mainly, manila, marina, marlin, narial, narwal, warily, warmly.

-5 letters: alarm, alary, aliya, alway, amain, amnia, anima, inarm, inlay, laari, lamia, lanai, lawny, liana, liman, malar, mania, manly, maria, marly, mayan, naira, nyala, rainy, rawin, rawly, riyal, wanly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Railwayman


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 69 6C 77 61 79 6D 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .-    ..    .-..    .--.    .-    -.--.    --    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#119 &#97 &#121 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0069 006C 0077 0061 0079 006D 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52677578896791796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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