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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
railyard is a noun meaning "an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines". It carries one recorded sense.
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for railyard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.