railroader

Other forms of railroader

plural

railroaders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about railroader

What does railroader mean?

railroader means "an employee of a railroad".

How many syllables are in railroader?

railroader has 4 syllables: ra-il-roa-der. The stress falls on "il".

What is another word for railroader?

Close synonyms include trainman, railroad man, railwayman, railway man. 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 railroader a common word?

railroader 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.