Definitions for monorail

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monorail mon·o·rail

Spelling: [mon-uh-reyl]

IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌreɪl/

Monorail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in monorail (ailmnoor).

Definitions for monorail

noun

1. a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
2. a railroad or other transportation system using such a rail.
3. a vehicle traveling on such a rail.

Origin of monorail

First recorded in 1895-1900; mono- + rail¹

Examples for monorail

Roads, monorail lines, all the countless tracks of civilization had disappeared beneath the green tide.

Standing up, he stretched and touched the top of the monorail car.

But Tom kept listening to the subdued click of the monorail—and kept wondering.

But though a jet was faster than the monorail it was also more expensive.

He was pointing into the distance and expounding on the merits of the monorail system.

A small cubicle jutted out from the ship and lowered itself along a monorail running down to the ground.

He tossed and turned and worried and finally—comfortable as the monorail car was—he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.

"I followed you from the monorail station," replied the boy.

To start the early Wright biplanes, the machines were placed on a monorail, along which they were towed by a cable.

For years, Mr. Brennan tells me, the problem haunted him, of how to make a monorail car balance itself.