TRAINS Synonyms: 179 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of train

as in entourages

a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person a movie star who never goes anywhere without a train of personal assistants to cater to his every whim and need

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as in fleets

a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management a train of supply trucks making its way to the army encampment

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as in queues

a series of persons or things arranged one behind another already a long train of ticket buyers waiting outside the stadium

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as in sequences

a series of things linked together you've broken my train of thought—now what were we talking about?

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verb

present tense third-person singular of train

as in prepares

to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years

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as in teaches

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field will train the students in good study habits

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as in focuses

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game

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as in aims

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye

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as in equips

to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits

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Recent Examples of trains

Noun

While the Doral incinerator used to burn about half of the county’s daily trash supply, Miami-Dade is now using trucks and trains to send its garbage to landfills across Florida. —

Douglas Hanks june 11, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 In fact, New York has run such OPTO trains before and did not record any increase in safety incidents or hazards. —

New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026 There’s still no date for MARTA’s new trains to enter service, officials said Thursday. —

Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 11 June 2026 Today, at Golden Spike National Historical Park, visitors can still see the marks left by those workers and experience historic steam trains like the ones that met at that summit in Utah 157 years ago. —

Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026 Penn Station trains remain unaffected Train service at Penn Station will be operating as normal, so Amtrak, LIRR and NJ Transit riders shouldn't be affected. —

Ali Bauman, CBS News, 10 June 2026 Use the GoPass smartphone app to easily and efficiently plan routes and buy tickets for buses and trains. —

Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 10 June 2026 Among the over 300 trains Amtrak operates each day, a handful feel especially suited to summer. —

Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2026 Officials said additional late-night trains will operate from Los Angeles on June 12, 13, 15 and 25 to accommodate fans attending matches and returning home after games conclude. —

City News Service, Daily News, 4 June 2026

Verb

Sagan harnesses his cosmic knowledge and enthusiasm for the search for extraterrestrial life and trains it on a very human story. —

Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 12 June 2026 That is why high performers should ignore productivity advice that trains them to chase visible tempo while losing sustainable rhythm. —

Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Hortman fostered Gilbert Hortman through the organization that trains service dogs. —

Jason Rantala, CBS News, 11 June 2026 Rebel joined the Walpole force in late 2017 after Golden Opportunities for Independence, a nonprofit that raises and trains service and community resource dogs, donated her to the department. —

Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026 However, a flat, steady walk mostly trains muscular endurance rather than muscle size or strength. —

Jakob Roze, Health, 9 June 2026 Over the last decade in our call centers, client service representative technology better skills them, better trains them, makes their jobs easier. —

Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026 The framework trains robots to use their entire arm instead of just a gripper, allowing machines to gather or sweep aside clusters of objects in ways that resemble human movement. —

Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026 What to expect This federal program trains older workers. —

Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trains

Noun

Long before private jets and sprawling entourages became standard for global superstars, Starr and his bandmates — Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison — were simply four young men navigating fame together, suitcase by suitcase.

— Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Sure, there were others — boyfriends came and went, entourages, too.

— Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026