trainload

noun

train·​load ˈtrān-ˌlōd How to pronounce trainload (audio)
: the full freight or passenger capacity of a railroad train
also : a load that fills a train

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The trainload of passengers, now kitted out for a jungle excursion, stepped out into tropical heat and loaded into a caravan of open-air jeeps to explore the park. Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025 North Korea delivered trainloads of weapons and ammunition, including millions of artillery rounds and ballistic missiles and launchers, in direct violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions. Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024 From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived. Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024 Soon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year. Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for trainload

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trainload was in 1819

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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trainload. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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