railway locomotive

Questions about railway locomotive

What does railway locomotive mean?

railway locomotive means "a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks".

What is another word for railway locomotive?

Close synonyms include locomotive, engine, locomotive engine. 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 locomotive a common word?

railway locomotive 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.