railroad terminal
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈreɪlˌrɔrd ˈtɜrmɪnəl/
- US
:
terminal de tren
- One of three "bus bridge" staging areas in Brooklyn, this one drew thousands as it is next to the Long Island Railroad terminal at Atlantic Avenue and the Atlantic-Barclays Center subway hub.
Examples
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Crisfield had become important because it was in the middle of Chesapeake Bay and had a railroad terminal.
Academic text (1996) -
They opened up a museum to Hank in the old railroad terminal there.
Fiction book (2000) -
At the railroad terminal, a man approaches me.
Fiction book (1999) -
I had been evicted from, as we moved further north, past the railroad terminal, toward the hotel.
Fiction book (1995) -
"the municipal building, railroad terminals, elevated stations."
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It was all to take place in a vast Manhattan railroad terminal.
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Where were we when every village in Germany has a railroad terminal where cattle cars were filled with children being carried off to their extermination?
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All 20 participants named a variety of environments in which they believed a similar kiosk would be useful, including major subway stations, airports, public buildings, museums, supermarkets, banks, and railroad terminals.
Academic text (1997) -
Chevy with an Elvis manikin in the driver's seat, to an old-fashioned round clock on a lamppole, the kind you might have found in a railroad terminal or even on some town's main street, before they were universally replaced with digital time-temperature displays.
Fiction book (1994) -
The passengers waited in the crowded railroad terminal for their train to arrive.
Synonyms
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3.5
A building where passengers begin or end a journey, for example at an airport
69
1.0
A place where trains stop for people and goods to get on and off
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4.4
A place where buses and trains stop for people and goods to get on and off
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1.3
A place where trains stop to pick up and drop off people and goods
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6.9
The final station at the end of a bus or train route
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1.5
A place where trains stop to pick up or drop off people and goods
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3.1
A place where trains stop to load people or goods
How Big
- US
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3.4
1
2.8
2
3.0
27
3.6
90
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'railroad' specifies the domain (rail network) and 'terminal' denotes a transfer/building, so together they indicate a terminal associated with rail services (an end/transfer station). This noun–noun modifier pattern is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Railroad terminal comes from the idea of a train line's last stop: railroad means the tracks and trains and terminal means the 'end' where trains stop to 'load or unload' people and goods. So a railroad terminal is a station at the end of a line for loading, unloading, and turning trains around.