overhead railway

What does overhead railway mean?

overhead railway means "a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level".

What is another word for overhead railway?

Close synonyms include elevated railway, elevated railroad, elevated, el. 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 overhead railway a common word?

overhead railway 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for overhead railway come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.