carload
car·load
noun \ˈkär-ˈlōd, -ˌlōd\Definition of CARLOAD
1
: a load (as of occupants) that fills a car <a carload of tourists>
2
: the minimum number of tons required for shipping at carload rates
3
: a large unspecified quantity <a carload of excuses>
Examples of CARLOAD
- She brought home a carload of books.
- People were arriving by the carload.
First Known Use of CARLOAD
1824
Related to CARLOAD
- Synonyms
- abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, lot, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Rhymes with CARLOAD
abode, anode, bar code, boatload, busload, byroad, cartload, caseload, cathode, church mode, commode, corrode, crossroad, dead load, decode, diode, displode, download, dress code, dynode, embowed, encode, epode, erode, explode, forebode, freeload, front-load, geode, high road, implode, inroad, live load, lymph node, no-load, off-load, outmode, payload, planeload, postcode, post road, railroad, rhapsode, sarod, shipload, side road, Silk Road, skid road, source code, spring-load, square-toed, tetrode, threnode, trainload, triode, truckload, unload, upload, zip code
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