RAIL LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rail line mean? 

• RAIL LINE (noun)
  The noun RAIL LINE has 1 sense:

1. the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

  Familiarity information: RAIL LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIL LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

line; rail line; railway line

Hypernyms ("rail line" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "rail line"):

railroad bed (a bed on which railroad track is laid)

railroad; railroad track; railway (a line of track providing a runway for wheels)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rail line"):

branch line; spur; spur track (a railway line connected to a trunk line)

trunk line; trunk route (line that is the main route on a railway)