Meanings
nounsignalwoman (plural signalwomen)
plural signalwomen
- 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.
1959 October 28, Trevor J. Saunders, “The Swindon and Highworth Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 710
Origin
- Englishsignal
- Proto-Germanic*wībą
- Proto-West Germanic*wīb
- Old Englishwīf
- Proto-Indo-European*mon-
- Proto-Germanic*mann-
- Proto-West Germanic*mann
- Old Englishmann
- Old Englishwīfmann
- Middle Englishwoman
- Englishsignalwoman
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APA
signalwoman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signalwoman
MLA
“signalwoman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signalwoman. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “signalwoman,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signalwoman.
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