railway car

Questions about railway car

What does railway car mean?

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

What is another word for railway car?

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

railway 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.