railroad car

Questions about railroad car

What does railroad car mean?

railroad car means "a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad".

What is another word for railroad car?

Close synonyms include car, railcar, railway car. 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 railroad car a common word?

railroad car 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.