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RAILROAD ENGINEER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does railroad engineer mean?

• RAILROAD ENGINEER (noun)
The noun RAILROAD ENGINEER has 1 sense:

1. the operator of a railway locomotive

Familiarity information: RAILROAD ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RAILROAD ENGINEER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The operator of a railway locomotive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

engine driver; locomotive engineer; railroad engineer; engineer

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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