train
/ˈtɹeɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle."
- "They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...]."
- "He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather."
- "Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train."
- "[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland."
- "A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre Old French traïnerder. Old French trainder. Middle English trayne English train From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English. For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹeɪn/
- British English: /ˈtɹeɪn/