steam locomotive

English

A steam locomotive.

Etymology

From steam and locomotive.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /stiːm ˌloʊkəˈmoʊtiv/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stiːm ˌləʊkəʊˈməʊtiv/

Noun

steam locomotive (plural steam locomotives)

1. (rail transport, historical) A locomotive, usually for use on a railway, that is powered by steam.

   Synonyms: steam loco (clipping), steam engine (UK), pufferbelly (informal, dated), bullgine (US, slang, obsolete)

   Hypernym: locomotive

   Coordinate terms: diesel locomotive, electric locomotive

   • 1960 February, J. N. Faulkner, “The Belgian Railways today”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:

     Inevitably the present extent and variety of the Belgian railways will diminish, and within the space of the ten-year plan we can expect to see a modern system concentrated on the main traffic routes like its neighbour in the Netherlands, and with its last steam locomotives and wooden coaches honourably retired to the museum.

Derived terms

• honorary steam locomotive

Related terms

• steam power
• steamship

 

Translations

locomotive powered by steam

• Arabic: قِطَار بُخَارِيّ m (qiṭār buḵāriyy)
• Armenian: շոգեքարշ (hy) (šogekʻarš)
• Azerbaijani: parovoz
• Belarusian: параво́з m (paravóz)
• Bulgarian: па́рен локомоти́в m (páren lokomotív)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸汽機車 / 蒸汽机车 (zh) (zhēngqì jīchē), 蒸氣火車 / 蒸气火车

• Chuvash: пӑравус (păravus)
• Czech: parní lokomotiva f, parovůz m
• Danish: damplokomotiv (da) n
• Dutch: stoomlocomotief (nl)
• Esperanto: vaporlokomotivo
• Estonian: auruvedur (et)
• Finnish: höyryveturi (fi)
• French: locomotive à vapeur (fr) f, train à vapeur (fr) m
• Galician: locomotora a vapor f
• Georgian: ორთქლმავალი (ortklmavali)
• German: Dampflokomotive (de) f, Dampflok (de) f, Dampfzug m, Dampfross (de) n (humorous)
• Greek: ατμομηχανή (el) f (atmomichaní), ατμάμαξα (el) f (atmámaxa)
• Hebrew: קַטַּר קִיטוֹר (he) m (katár kitór)
• Hungarian: mozdony (hu), gőzmozdony (hu)
• Icelandic: eimreið (is) f
• Ingrian: paravoza
• Italian: locomotiva (it) f, motrice (it) f, locomotiva a vapore f, vaporiera (it) f
• Japanese: 蒸気機関車 (ja) (じょうききかんしゃ, jōki kikansha)
• Kazakh: паровоз m (parovoz)
• Korean: 증기 기관차(蒸氣機關車) (jeunggi gigwancha)
• Kyrgyz: паровоз (parovoz)
• Latvian: tvaika lokmotīve f
• Lithuanian: garvežys m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: уурын хөдөлгүүр (uuryn xödölgüür), уурын бух тэрэг (uuryn bux tereg)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠬᠥᠳᠡᠯᠭᠡᠭᠦᠷ (aɣur-ün ködelgegür), ᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠪᠤᠬ᠎ᠠ
  ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (aɣur-ün buk-a terge)

• Navajo: kǫʼ naʼałbąąsii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: damplokomotiv n

  Nynorsk: damplokomotiv n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: قِطارِ بُخار (ğetâr-e boxâr)

• Polish: parowóz (pl) m
• Portuguese: locomotiva a vapor f, maria-fumaça (pt) f
• Romanian: locomotivă cu abur f
• Russian: парово́з (ru) m (parovóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: парна локомотива f

  Roman: parna lokomotiva f

• Silesian: damfmaszyna f
• Slovak: parný rušeň m, parná lokomotíva f
• Spanish: locomotora de vapor f
• Swedish: ånglok (sv) n
• Tajik: паровоз (parovoz)
• Turkish: buharlı lokomotif (tr)
• Turkmen: parowoz
• Ukrainian: парово́з m (parovóz), паротя́г m (parotjáh)
• Uyghur: پاراۋوز (parawoz)
• Uzbek: parovoz (uz)
• Yiddish: פּאַראָוואָז m (parovoz), דאַמף־לאָקאָמאָטיוו m (damf-lokomotiv)

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