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compartmentful

compartmentful noun: a quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.

Noun

compartmentful (plural compartmentfuls or compartmentsful)

  1. A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
    • There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it.1991, Kate Roberts, Joseph P. Clancy, The World of Kate Roberts: Selected Stories, 1925-1981, page 93
    • He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers.2000, Angela K. Smith, Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology, page 68

Forms of compartmentful

pluralcompartmentfuls
pluralcompartmentsful

Origin of compartmentful

From compartment + -ful.

Questions about compartmentful

What does compartmentful mean?
Compartmentful means a quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
What part of speech is compartmentful?
Compartmentful is a noun.
What is the plural of compartmentful?
The plural of compartmentful is compartmentfuls.

Words near compartmentful in the dictionary

  1. compartmentally
  2. compartmentation
  3. compartmentations
  4. compartmentectomy
  5. compartmented
  6. compartmentful
  7. compartmentfuls
  8. compartmenting
  9. compartmentize
  10. compartmentized
  11. compartmentizes

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