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    RAILROAD ENGINEER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The operator of a railway locomotiveplay

    Synonyms:

    engine driver; engineer; locomotive engineer; railroad engineer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("railroad engineer" is a kind of...):

    manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Casey Jones; John Luther Jones; Jones (United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900))

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