railway

Other forms of railway

plural

railways·

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 railway

What does railway mean?

railway means "line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in railway?

railway has 2 syllables: rail-way. The stress falls on "rail". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/.

What is another word for railway?

Close synonyms include railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system, railroad track. 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 railway a common word?

railway is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with railway?

55 words rhyme with railway. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.