"rail trail" meaning in All languages combined

See rail trail on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: rail trails [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} rail trail (plural rail trails)
  1. (rail transport) A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling. Categories (topical): Rail transportation Synonyms: rail-trail Related terms: greenway Translations (former railway track): sentier ferroviaire [masculine] (French), vía verde [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rail trails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rail trail (plural rail trails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English rhyming compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Rhyming compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Rhyming phrases",
            "Terms by etymology",
            "Phrases",
            "Lemmas",
            "Multiword terms"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Rail-Trails Midwest Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "As railroads fell into disuse, they left behind thousand of miles of corridor and, of course, potential trails. Today, the Great Lakes region of the Midwest boasts 381 rail-trails, and Wisconsin and Michigan are constantly vying for the most rail-trail miles of all 50 states and the more than 1500 rail-trails across the United States […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling."
      ],
      "id": "en-rail_trail-en-noun-FJYjmi-k",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railway track",
          "railway track"
        ],
        [
          "greenway",
          "greenway"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walking"
        ],
        [
          "cycling",
          "cycling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "greenway"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "rail-trail"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "former railway track",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sentier ferroviaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "former railway track",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vía verde"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rail trail"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rail trails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rail trail (plural rail trails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "greenway"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English rhyming compounds",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Rail-Trails Midwest Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "As railroads fell into disuse, they left behind thousand of miles of corridor and, of course, potential trails. Today, the Great Lakes region of the Midwest boasts 381 rail-trails, and Wisconsin and Michigan are constantly vying for the most rail-trail miles of all 50 states and the more than 1500 rail-trails across the United States […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railway track",
          "railway track"
        ],
        [
          "greenway",
          "greenway"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walking"
        ],
        [
          "cycling",
          "cycling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A former railway track converted into a multi-use path, typically as a greenway for walking and cycling."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "rail-trail"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "former railway track",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sentier ferroviaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "former railway track",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vía verde"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rail trail"
}

Download raw JSONL data for rail trail meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.