railwayman

Other forms of railwayman

plural

railwaymans·

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 railwayman

What does railwayman mean?

railwayman means "an employee of a railroad".

How many syllables are in railwayman?

railwayman has 3 syllables: rail-way-man. The stress falls on "rail".

What is another word for railwayman?

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

railwayman 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.