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RAILYARD
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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 ("railyard" 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 "railyard"):
marshalling yard (a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded)