express train
express train noun: a train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
Noun
express train (plural express trains)
- A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
- All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return...1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar
- King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but...1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480
- Synonyms:
- crack train, fast train, limited
express train meaning in Tamil and Gujarati
express train in Tamil
- விரைவு இருப்பூர்தி, விரைவு இரும்பூர்தி, விரைவுத் தொடர் வண்டி
express train in Gujarati
- express train
- ફાસ્ટ phāsṭ
Examples of express train in a sentence
- Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them.1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
- For all the attention on express trains, it's often local trains that tip the railway into congestion.2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
Synonyms of express train
- fast train
- limited
- crack train
Antonyms
Forms of express train
| plural | express trains |
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Questions about express train
- What does express train mean?
- Express train means a train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
- What is express train in Tamil?
- Express train in Tamil is விரைவு இருப்பூர்தி, விரைவு இரும்பூர்தி, விரைவுத் தொடர் வண்டி. See Express train meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use express train in a sentence?
- Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them.
- What part of speech is express train?
- Express train is a noun.
- What is the plural of express train?
- The plural of express train is express trains.
Words near express train in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: express train (page history and authors); express train (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ફાસ્ટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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