locomotive engine

Questions about locomotive engine

What does locomotive engine mean?

locomotive engine means "a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks".

What is another word for locomotive engine?

Close synonyms include locomotive, engine, railway locomotive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is locomotive engine a common word?

locomotive engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.