train – English noun declension

English noun forms of train

Noun: train
Singulartrain
Pluraltrains

Sample Sentences

  • Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
  • They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...]. [1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:]
  • He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather. [1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:]
  • Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train. [2011 April 20, Imogen Fox, The Guardian:]
  • [E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland. [1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:]
  • A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion. [1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones:]
  • Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while,
  • And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle,
  • Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne,
  • If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 108, column 2:]
  • The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass [1894, Sir Edwin Arnold, Wandering Words, page 260:]
  • Fawn and pearl of the lyre-bird's train, / Sheen of the bronze-wing, blue of the crane; / Cream of the plover, grey of the dove; / These are the hues of the land I love! [1917, William Henry Fitchett, Australia in the making, page xii:]
  • Before the Spanish Conquest, the long, slender, green plumes of the male bird's train adorned the headgear of Aztec and Mayan kings and chieftains, as one may clearly see in modern restorations of ancient scenes. [1945, Nature Magazine, page 299:]
  • Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train. [1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion:]
  • It sometimes happens that the train is directed towards the sun, or makes a certain angle with the line joining the head and the sun; it was then called by the ancient astronomers the beard of the comet. [1877, Amédée Guillemin, James Glaisher, The World of Comets, page 200:]
  • ...the comet expands, its vapours are developed and escape in jets towards the radiant star; then we see them driven back on each side of the head and the caudal train commencing. [2014, Camille Flammarion, Popular Astronomy, →ISBN, page 515:]
  • Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
  • The imperial train arrived on November 22 at Te-chou, a city in western Shantung along the border of Chihli. [1979, Silas H. L. Wu, Passage to Power: Kʻang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661-1722, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:]
  • Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king’s train, but she was beginning to understand Henry’s motive for including the pretender’s wife. [2009, Anne Easter Smith, The King's Grace:]
  • Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
  • Theſe are the cruel pirates of Argier,
  • That damned train, the ſcum of Affrica, […] [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
  • A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow. [1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:]
  • Failure to acknowledge an A.T.C. warning or excessive speed starts the same train of events until correction is made. [1960 November, P. Ransome=Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 679:]
  • "Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought. [2012 June 18, Rory Carroll, The Guardian:]
  • Thus the development of reason is accompanied by no inner blight or withering. It does not bring in its train loss of faith or weakening of sympathies. [1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 120:]
  • in a fair / better / worse train
  • As we had been in a good train for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters. [1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 139:]
  • I took care that my absence should neither be lamented by the poor nor the rich. I put every thing in a fair train of going on smoothly, and actually set out, with my steward, for my estate in Wales at dawning of the day. [1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 7, in Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost, volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, page 46:]
  • 1787, George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton dated 10 July, 1787, in The Writings of George Washington, Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1837, Volume 9, p. 260,
  • When I refer you to the state of the counsels, which prevailed at the period you left this city, and add that they are now if possible in a worse train than ever, you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed.
  • […] every thing was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford’s marrying Edmund than it had ever been before. [1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 120-121:]
  • on a train
  • The train for Edinburgh will leave in 5 minutes.
  • The train arrived at the station.
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train, for the adventure. [2009 January 24, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian:]
  • A maglev train is akin to a surfboard riding a magnetic wave, says John Harding, formerly chief maglev scientist at America’s Federal Railroad Administration. […] A “moving platform” scheme proposed by Priestmangoode is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. [2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):]
  • What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains? [2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies, page 16:]
  • “You want us to run a train on you?” [2005, Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001, link:]
  • She doesn't come around any more, cuz she had a kid. She's on the family train now.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
3. Latin trahere
4. Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre
5. Old French traïnerder.
6. Old French trainder.
7. Middle English trayne
8. English train
9. 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.
10. For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)). See: Middle English Nouns 'trayne', Latin Nouns 'trahō'.

Verbs referencing "train"

Portuguese Nouns trem, Irish Nouns traein, Irish Nouns traenáil, Galician Nouns traíña, Russian Nouns трен.