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carpetful

carpetful noun: the amount that fills a carpet.

Noun

carpetful (plural carpetfuls or carpetsful)

  1. The amount that fills a carpet.
    • First stop, France, where Jean Paul has his trick white mice; Lady Green Satin and her maid, Rosette, perform for the carpetful of absorbed youngsters; […]1932 April 4, Monmouth County Librarian, “County Libraries Invite Readers: That Magic Carpet”, in Long Branch Daily Record, volume 31, number 80, Long Branch, N.J., page 5, column 1
    • Gather ’round, Children, for the weekly story hour Thursday at 2:30. Last week there were two carpetsful of listeners.1971 July 23, “It’s Story Time At The Library Thursdays at 2:30”, in The Mendocino Beacon, volume XCIII, number 47, Mendocino, Calif., page 1, column 4

Examples of carpetful in a sentence

  • All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]1996, Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb, “The Common Room, Year of the Gauntlet (1369 DR)”, in Cormyr: A Novel (The Cormyr Saga), Renton, Wash....
  • The first air-raiders loosed large carpetfuls of hurtling rocks that strafed men on the ground, dislocating their shoulders, shattering 150 large wooden shields, and pulverizing brows.2022, D. A. Wood, Canaäd, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 558:

Forms of carpetful

pluralcarpetfuls
pluralcarpetsful

Origin of carpetful

From carpet + -ful.

Questions about carpetful

What does carpetful mean?
Carpetful means the amount that fills a carpet.
How do you use carpetful in a sentence?
All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]
What part of speech is carpetful?
Carpetful is a noun.
What is the plural of carpetful?
The plural of carpetful is carpetfuls.

Words near carpetful in the dictionary

  1. carpetbags
  2. carpetball
  3. carpetbeater
  4. carpetbeaters
  5. carpeted
  6. carpetful
  7. carpetfuls
  8. carpetgrass
  9. carpetgrasses
  10. carpeth
  11. carpetimycin

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