Phrase guide

railroad car

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Any railway vehicle or rolling stock.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: railway wagon, railwagon, railway carriage, rail-carriage, railway truck, railtruck, truck, railcar, bogie

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rolling stock, vehicle

Narrower terms: freight car, boxcar, passenger car, goods wagon, flat wagon

2

noun

Meaning 2

a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • three cars had jumped the rails

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: car, railcar, railway car

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wheeled vehicle

Narrower terms: baggage car, luggage van, cabin car, caboose, club car, lounge car, freight car, guard's van, handcar, mail car, passenger car, coach, carriage, slip coach, slip carriage, tender, van

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

126 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: wa — railway vehicle
  • Albanian: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Amharic: ጋሪ (gari) — railway vehicle
  • Arabic: عَرَبَة (ʕaraba) — railway vehicle
  • Armenian: վագոն (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Azerbaijani: vaqon — railway vehicle
  • Bashkir: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Basque: bagoi — railway vehicle
  • Belarusian: ваго́н (vahón) — railway vehicle
  • Bengali: রেল গাড়ী (rel gaṛi) — railway vehicle
  • Bengali: গাড়ী (gaṛi) — railway vehicle
  • Breton: bagon — railway vehicle
  • Bulgarian: ваго́н (vagón) — railway vehicle
  • Burmese: မီးရထားတွဲ (mi:ra.hta:twai:) — railway vehicle
  • Catalan: vagó — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Cantonese: 車廂 /车厢 (ce1 soeng1) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Cantonese: 車卡 /车卡 (ce1 kaa1) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese: 車廂 /车厢 (zh-min-nan) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鐵路車輛 /铁路车辆 (tiělù chēliàng) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 車皮 /车皮 (chēpí) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 火車車廂 /火车车厢 (huǒchē chēxiāng) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 車廂 /车厢 (chēxiāng) — railway vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貨車 /货车 (huòchē) — railway vehicle
  • Czech: vagón — railway vehicle
  • Danish: togvogn — railway vehicle
  • Danish: jernbanevogn — railway vehicle
  • Dutch: rijtuig — railway vehicle
  • Dutch: goederenwagen — railway vehicle
  • Dutch: wagen — railway vehicle
  • Dutch: wagon — railway vehicle
  • Esperanto: vagono — railway vehicle
  • Estonian: vagun — railway vehicle
  • Estonian: raudteevagun — railway vehicle
  • Finnish: vaunu — railway vehicle
  • Finnish: junavaunu — railway vehicle
  • Finnish: rautatievaunu — railway vehicle
  • French: wagon — railway vehicle
  • French: voiture — railway vehicle
  • Galician: vagón — railway vehicle
  • Georgian: ვაგონი (vagoni) — railway vehicle
  • German: Eisenbahnwagen — railway vehicle
  • German: Wagon — railway vehicle
  • German: Waggon — railway vehicle
  • Greek: άμαξα (ámaxa) — railway vehicle
  • Greek: βαγόνι (vagóni) — railway vehicle
  • Hawaiian: hale (hale kaʻa) — railway vehicle
  • Hebrew: קָרוֹן (karón) — railway vehicle
  • Hindi: रेलगाड़ी (relgāṛī) — railway vehicle
  • Hindi: गाड़ी (gāṛī) — railway vehicle
  • Hungarian: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Hungarian: kocsi — railway vehicle
  • Hungarian: vasúti kocsi — railway vehicle
  • Hungarian: személykocsi — railway vehicle
  • Icelandic: járnbrautarvagn — railway vehicle
  • Indonesian: gerbong — railway vehicle
  • Interlingua: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Interlingua: wagon — railway vehicle
  • Irish: carráiste traenach — railway vehicle
  • Italian: carrozza — railway vehicle
  • Italian: vagone — railway vehicle
  • Italian: bisarca — railway vehicle
  • Japanese: 鉄道車両 (tetsudō sharyō) — railway vehicle
  • Japanese: 旅客車 (ryokyakusha) — railway vehicle
  • Japanese: 客車 (kyakusha) — railway vehicle
  • Japanese: 貨車 (kasha) — railway vehicle
  • Kazakh: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Khmer: វ៉ាហ្គុង (vaagung) — railway vehicle
  • Khmer: ទូរទេះភ្លើង (tuu rɔɔrɔteh phləəng) — railway vehicle
  • Korean: 궤도차 (gwedocha) — railway vehicle
  • Korean: 객차 (gaekcha) — railway vehicle
  • Northern Kurdish: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Kyrgyz: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Lao: ວາກົງ (wā kong) — railway vehicle
  • Latvian: vagons — railway vehicle
  • Lithuanian: vagonas — railway vehicle
  • Macedonian: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Malay: gerabak — railway vehicle
  • Māori: kāreti — railway vehicle
  • Māori: taraka — railway vehicle
  • Mongolian: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠭᠣᠨ (waɣon) — railway vehicle
  • Norman: vaituthe — railway vehicle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: togvogn — railway vehicle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: jernbanevogn — railway vehicle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: togvogn — railway vehicle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: jernbanevogn — railway vehicle
  • Occitan: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Ojibwe: odaabaan — railway vehicle
  • Pashto: واګون (wāgun) — railway vehicle
  • Iranian Persian: واگُن (vâgon) — railway vehicle
  • Polish: wagon — railway vehicle
  • Portuguese: carruagem — railway vehicle
  • Portuguese: vagão — railway vehicle
  • Romanian: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Russian: ваго́н (vagón) — railway vehicle
  • Scottish Gaelic: carbad — railway vehicle
  • Serbo-Croatian: ва̀го̄н — railway vehicle
  • Serbo-Croatian: vàgōn — railway vehicle
  • Slovak: vagón — railway vehicle
  • Slovene: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Spanish: vagón — railway vehicle
  • Spanish: coche — railway vehicle
  • Spanish: wagón — railway vehicle
  • Swahili: behewa — railway vehicle
  • Swedish: järnvägsvagn — railway vehicle
  • Swedish: tågvagn — railway vehicle
  • Tagalog: bagon — railway vehicle
  • Tajik: вагон (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Tatar: вагон (wağon) — railway vehicle
  • Thai: ตู้รถไฟ (dtûu-rót-fai) — railway vehicle
  • Tigrinya: ባጎኒ (bagoni) — railway vehicle
  • Turkish: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Ottoman Turkish: واغون (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Turkmen: wagon — railway vehicle
  • Ukrainian: ваго́н (vahón) — railway vehicle
  • Urdu: ریل گاڑی (rel gāṛī) — railway vehicle
  • Urdu: گاڑی (gāṛī) — railway vehicle
  • Uyghur: ۋاگۇن (wagun) — railway vehicle
  • Uzbek: vagon — railway vehicle
  • Vietnamese: toa — railway vehicle
  • Vietnamese: toa tàu — railway vehicle
  • Vietnamese: toa xe — railway vehicle
  • Welsh: cerbyd — railway vehicle
  • Yiddish: וואַגאָן (vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Yiddish: אײַזנבאַן וואַגאָן (ayznban vagon) — railway vehicle
  • Zazaki: vagon — railway vehicle