English
Etymology
rail + way .
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Noun
railway (plural railways )
( chiefly UK , Ireland and Commonwealth ) A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods .
1918 , W. B. Maxwell , chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp [1] :That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
( chiefly UK , Ireland and Commonwealth ) A track , consisting of parallel rails , over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
2012 , Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube , Profile Books, →ISBN , pages 14-15 :His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested in railways . Over a thousand miles of them opened between 1837 and 1845, most of what would become the national network. [...] You needed an Act of Parliament to build a railway ; but that wasn't very hard to obtain if you could give the appearance of adequately funded competence.
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track, consisting of parallel rails
Abkhaz: аиҳаамҩа ( ajḥaamjʷa )
Afrikaans: spoorweg (af)
Arabic: سِكَّة حَدِيدِيَّة f ( sikka ḥadīdiyya ) , سِكَّة اَلْحَدِيد f ( sikkat al-ḥadīd )
Armenian: երկաթուղի (hy) ( erkatʻuġi )
Azerbaijani: dəmiryol
Belarusian: каляя́ f ( kaljajá )
Bulgarian: железопъ̀тна ли́ния f ( železopǎ̀tna línija )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鐵路 / 铁路 (zh) ( tiělù ) , 铁路 (zh) ( tiělù ) , 鐵道 / 铁道 (zh) ( tiědào ) , 铁道 (zh) ( tiědào )
Czech: kolej (cs) f , železnice (cs) f , trať (cs) f
Danish: jernbane (da) c
Dutch: spoorweg (nl) m
Esperanto: fervojo (eo)
Estonian: raudtee (et)
Finnish: rata (fi) , junarata (fi) , rautatie (fi)
French: chemin de fer (fr) m , réseau ferroviaire m , voie ferrée (fr) f
Galician: vía férrea f
Georgian: ლიანდაგი ( liandagi )
German: Eisenbahnlinie (de) f , Gleis (de) n
Greek: σιδηρόδρομος (el) m ( sidiródromos )
Hungarian: sín (hu) , vasút (hu) , vasútvonal (hu)
Icelandic: járnbraut (is) f , lestarspor n , járnbani m , járngata
Indonesian: jalan kereta api
Interlingua: ferrovia
Irish: bóthar iarainn m , iarnród m
Italian: binario (it) m , rotaia (it) f , strada ferrata f , ferrovia (it) f
Japanese: 線路 (ja) ( せんろ, senro )
Korean: 철도 (ko) ( cheoldo ) , 선로 (ko) ( seollo )
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Latvian: dzelzceļš m
Macedonian: пруга f ( pruga ) , железница f ( železnica )
Malay: kereta api
Maori: rerewē , ara rerewē
Mongolian: төмөр зам (mn) ( tömör zam )
Navajo: béésh bitiin , kǫʼ naʼałbąąsii bitiin
Norman: c'mîn d'fé m
North Frisian: Iirsenbaan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jernbane (no) m
Nynorsk: jernbane m or f , jarnbane m or f
Ojibwe: (please verify ) ishkodewidaabaanikana
Polish: kolej (pl) f , linia kolejowa (pl) f
Portuguese: ferrovia (pt) f , estrada de ferro (pt) f
Romanian: cale ferată (ro) f , rețea feroviară f
Russian: желе́зная доро́га (ru) f ( želéznaja doróga ) , колея́ (ru) f ( kolejá )
Scottish Gaelic: rathad-iarainn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: железница f , жељезница f
Roman: železnica f , željeznica (sh) f
Spanish: vía férrea f , ferrocarril (es) m , ( Latin America ) riel (es) m , ( Spain ) vía (es) f
Swedish: järnväg (sv) c , järnvägsspår (sv) n
Tagalog: perokaril , daangbakal
Tibetan: ལྕགས་ལམ ( lcags lam )
Turkish: demir yolu hattı
Ukrainian: ко́лія f ( kólija )
Vietnamese: đường sắt (vi)
Welsh: rheilffordd
West Frisian: spoarwei c
transport system using these rails
Abkhaz: аиҳаамҩа ( ajḥaamjʷa )
Albanian: hekurudhë (sq) f
Arabic: سِكَّة حَدِيدِيَّة f ( sikka ḥadīdiyya )
Armenian: երկաթուղի (hy) ( erkatʻuġi )
Azerbaijani: dəmir yolu
Belarusian: жале́зная даро́га f ( žaljéznaja daróha ) , чыгу́нка f ( čyhúnka ) , чыгу́начны пуць m ( čyhúnačny pucʹ )
Bengali: রেলপথ ( relpoth )
Bulgarian: желе́зница f ( želéznica )
Burmese: သံလမ်း (my) ( samlam: ) , မီးရထား (my) ( mi:ra.hta: )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鐵路 / 铁路 (zh) ( tiělù ) , 铁路 (zh) ( tiělù ) , 鐵道 / 铁道 (zh) ( tiědào ) , 铁道 (zh) ( tiědào )
Czech: železnice (cs) f
Danish: jernbane (da) c
Dutch: spoorwegen (nl) pl
Esperanto: fervojo (eo)
Estonian: raudtee (et)
Finnish: rautatie (fi) , rautatiet (fi) pl
French: chemin de fer (fr) m
Galician: ferrocarril m
Georgian: რკინიგზა ( rḳinigza )
German: Eisenbahn (de) f , Bahn (de) f
Greek: σιδηρόδρομος (el) m ( sidiródromos )
Hebrew: מסילת רכבת f ( mesillat rakevet )
Hindi: रेलवे (hi) f ( relve )
Hungarian: vasút (hu)
Icelandic: járnbraut (is) f
Indonesian: kereta api (id)
Irish: iarnród m
Italian: ferrovia (it) f
Japanese: 鉄道 (ja) ( てつどう , tetsudō)
Kazakh: темір жол (kk) ( temır jol )
Khmer: ផ្លូវដែក ( phləw daek ) , អយបថ ( ʼaʼyĕəʼbɑt ) , អយស្ម័យយាន ( ʼaʼyaʼsmay yiən )
Korean: 철도 (ko) ( cheoldo )
Kyrgyz: темир жол ( temir jol )
Lao: ທາງລົດໄຟ ( thāng lot fai ) , ລົດໄຟ (lo) ( lot fai )
Latvian: dzelzceļš m
Lithuanian: geležinkelis m
Macedonian: железница f ( železnica )
Malay: keretapi
Maori: rerewē
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Mongolian: төмөр зам (mn) ( tömör zam )
Navajo: béésh ńtʼiʼ , béésh bitiin
Norman: c'mîn d'fé m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jernbane (no) m
Nynorsk: jarnbane m or f , jernbane m or f
Ojibwe: (please verify ) ishkodewidaabaan , (please verify ) mashkodewidaabaan
Ossetian: ӕфсӕнвӕндаг ( æfsænvændag )
Pashto: اوسپنليکه f ( osрənlíka ) , خط آهن m ( xte āhán )
Persian: راهآهن ( râh âhan ) (also: راه آهن (fa) )
Polish: kolej (pl) f , kolej żelazna f
Portuguese: ferrovia (pt)
Romanian: căi ferate f pl
Russian: желе́зная доро́га (ru) f ( želéznaja doróga )
Scottish Gaelic: rèile f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жѐлезница f , жѐљезница f
Roman: žèleznica f , žèljeznica (sh) f
Slovak: železnica f , železničná trať f
Slovene: železniško n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zeleznica f
Spanish: ferrocarril (es) m
Swedish: järnväg (sv) c
Tagalog: daangbakal
Tajik: роҳи оҳан ( rohi ohan ) , роҳ оҳан ( roh ohan )
Tatar: тимер юл ( timer yul )
Telugu: రైల్వే ( railvē )
Thai: การรถไฟ ( gaan-rót-fai ) , รถไฟ (th) ( rót-fai )
Tibetan: ལྕགས་ལམ ( lcags lam )
Turkish: demir yolu (tr)
Turkmen: demir ýoly
Ukrainian: залізни́ця f ( zaliznýcja )
Urdu: ریلوے f ( relve )
Uyghur: تۆمۈر يول ( tömür yol )
Uzbek: temir yoʻl (uz)
Vietnamese: đường sắt (vi) , đường ray (vi)
Welsh: rheilffordd
West Frisian: spoarwei c
Yakut: тимир суол ( timir suol )
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See also
French
Pronunciation
Noun
railway m (plural railways )
( Anglicism ) railway
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