signalwoman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman employed to operate the signals and points of a railway.
    — The two signalwomen at Highworth and the two signalmen at Kingsdown Road have now little to do, but it is planned to retain only Kingsdown as an exchange point, and revert to "one engine" working between there and Highworth.

词形变化

signalwomen plural

词源

Etymology tree
English signal
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English signalwoman
From signal + -woman.
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