RAILWAY YARD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

Synonyms:

railway yard; railyard; yard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("railway yard" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railway yard"):

marshalling yard (a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded)

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