train Meaning & Definition

Synonyms of Train

Antonyms of Train

Train in a Sentence

Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.

Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.

in a fair / better / worse train

on a train

The train for Edinburgh will leave in 5 minutes.

The train arrived at the station.

She doesn't come around any more, cuz she had a kid. She's on the family train now.

She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.

You can't train a pig to write poetry.

I trained with weights all winter.

The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.

The vine had been trained over the pergola.

traveled the country by train

A train puffs across the Railroad Connection Bridge …

Tractor trains can operate not only within a plant but also outdoors between plants. These trains are especially useful where loads are too bulky or heavy for forklift trucks …

The [farm] tractor was 11.52 tonnes and the trailer 18.30 tonnes, giving a train weight of 29.82 tonnes.

In his train flock not the industrial workers of the world but the literary intellectuals of the capital cities of the world …

They had been walking for eight days. So had their small train of camels, mules and donkeys …

Sightings of spiral meteor trains are not new.

I lost my train of thought. What were we talking about?

consequences the discovery will bring in its train

a gear train

Her bridal train was carried by a pretty flower girl …

… Edward IV had an artillery train which impressed contemporaries, and which was clearly intended to provide for field actions as well as sieges.

an oil production train

A train of powder burning at a known rate can be made into an accurate timer as the length of the train is directly proportional to the time it takes to burn.

trained his camera on the deer

training every effort toward success

a movie star who never goes anywhere without a train of personal assistants to cater to his every whim and need

a train of supply trucks making its way to the army encampment

already a long train of ticket buyers waiting outside the stadium

you've broken my train of thought—now what were we talking about?

has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years

will train the students in good study habits

train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game

trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye

he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits

traveled the country by train / A train puffs across the Railroad Connection Bridge …

Tractor trains can operate not only within a plant but also outdoors between plants. These trains are especially useful where loads are too bulky or heavy for forklift trucks … / The [farm] tractor was 11.52 tonnes and the trailer 18.30 tonnes, giving a train weight of 29.82 tonnes.

trained his camera on the deer / training every effort toward success

Word Forms & Grammar

trains

train·ful noun

in train

train

train of thought

trainful

trainfuls

trainsful

trained

train·ing

train·abil·i·ty noun

train·able adjective

trainabilities

trainability

trainable

training

train (plural trains)

train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)

train (countable and uncountable, plural trains)

train (uncountable)

Words That Rhyme With Train

Origin of Train

Origin 1: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from trainer to draw, drag

Origin 2: Middle English, from Anglo-French trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginare; akin to Latin trahere to draw

Origin 3: Middle English traine treachery, from Anglo-French, from trahir to betray, from Latin tradere traitor

Origin 4: 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.

Origin 5: For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)).

Origin 6: From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).

Origin 7: From Dutch traan (“tear, drop”), from Middle Dutch trâen, from Old Dutch trān, from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu (“tear”). Compare German Träne (“tear”), Tran (“train oil”).

First Known Use

14th century

15th centuryt