signal tower

1. 1.

   a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains

   Synonymssignal box

   Broaderbuilding

   United Kingdom

Questions about signal tower

What does signal tower mean?

signal tower means "a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains".

What is another word for signal tower?

Close synonyms include signal box. 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 signal tower a common word?

signal tower 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.