Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A railway that operates on a raised structure in order to permit passage of vehicles or pedestrians beneath it.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level
Examples
“Then the explosion came, and a blue flame, wide as a house, curled its tongues halfway across the street, enwrapping engine and man, setting fire to the elevated railway station overhead, or such wreck of it as the shock had left.”
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