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Definition: Railwayman |
RailwaymanNoun1. 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: RailwaymanSynonyms: railroad man (n), railroader (n), railway man (n), trainman (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: railroader (transportation), railway employee, railway servant. |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 69 6C 77 61 79 6D 61 6E |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .. .-.. .--. .- -.--. -- .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a i l w a y m a n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52677578896791796780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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