railwayman

English

Etymology

From railway +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

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Noun

railwayman (plural railwaymen)

1. A man who works on a railway.

   Synonym: railman

   Coordinate terms: railwaywoman, railworker

   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:

     The spirit of the local railwaymen in this emergency is shown by the Helensburgh fireman who heard the news at 8 a.m. on his radio and immediately went to the depot of his own accord to see what help he could give.

   • 1973 June 24, Barbara Probst Solomon, “The author's subject is his rage and fear”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Nizan was, of course, Marxist and he did use his Marxist intelligence—although, thank God, never the jargon—to show the [economic] and emotional cost of the life of Antoine Bloye, a [working‐class] railwayman who made the painful rise to become a railway functionary and a member of the petit bourgeoisie.

Antonyms

• non-railwayman

Translations

man who works on a railway

• Bulgarian: железничар m (železničar)
• Catalan: carrilaire m or f, ferroviari m
• Dutch: spoorwegman (nl) m
• Finnish: rautatieläinen (fi)
• French: cheminot (fr) m
• Friulian: ferovîr m
• German: Eisenbahner (de) m
• Hindi: ख़लासी (xalāsī)
• Hungarian: vasutas (hu)
• Italian: ferroviere (it) m
• Kazakh: теміржолшы (temırjolşy)
• Latvian: dzelzceļnieks m
• Macedonian: железничар (železničar), железничарка f (železničarka)
• Piedmontese: ferovié m
• Polish: kolejarz (pl) m
• Romanian: feroviar (ro) m, feroviară (ro) f
• Russian: железнодоро́жник (ru) m (železnodoróžnik)
• Spanish: ferroviario (es) m, ferroviaria (es) f
• Ukrainian: залізни́чник m (zaliznýčnyk)