Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stopping train

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables: stop-ping -train
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.

Example Sentences

"Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton."
"Another view of Ashchurch station on August 18, 1961, with "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46148 The Manchester Regiment restarting a Worcester-Cheltenham stopping train and a Class 4 2-6-0 at the branch platform on a train from Redditch."

Inflected Forms

stopping trains (plural)

Phrases

stopping service

Frequently Paired Words

stopping service

Synonyms

local stopper

Questions

What does stopping train mean?: A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.

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