railroad flat

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   an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them

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Questions about railroad flat

What does railroad flat mean?

railroad flat means "an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them".

Is railroad flat a common word?

railroad flat 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.