Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

steam train

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: steam -train
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A train pulled by a steam locomotive.

Example Sentences

"The early Underground trains were essentially ordinary steam trains that just happened to be running below the streets in the middle of London."
""But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that."

Inflected Forms

steam trains (plural)

Questions

What does steam train mean?: A train pulled by a steam locomotive.

How to pronounce steam train

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