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trainspotters

trainspotters is the plural of trainspotter.

Meaning of trainspotter

Noun

trainspotter (plural trainspotters)

  1. A person whose hobby is train spotting.
    • `So are you like one of those anorak wearing trainspotter types?'2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 2
  2. (broadly) An obsessive follower of any minority interest or hobby.

Questions about trainspotters

What is trainspotters the plural of?
Trainspotters is the plural of trainspotter.

Words near trainspotters in the dictionary

  1. trainspot
  2. trainspots
  3. trainspotted
  4. trainspotter
  5. trainspotterish
  6. trainspotters
  7. trainspottery
  8. trainspotting
  9. trainstop
  10. trainstops
  11. traintime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trainspotters (page history and authors); trainspotter (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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