RAILROAD ENGINEER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The operator of a railway locomotive

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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