wagonload
1
4.5
- noun
- /ˈwæɡənloʊd/
- Informal
:
carga de carro
- After the harvest, the farmer delivered a wagonload of fresh produce to the market.
Examples
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During the spring sale, the store had a wagonload of discounted items for customers.
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The festival organizers received a wagonload of donations to support the local community.
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- A wagonload of vodka!
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You bring back half of these, you'll have a wagonload!
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Each day, ten wagonloads of children were hauled off to the lake for the afternoon.
Fiction book (2001) -
Workmen arrived before noon with several wagonloads of squared timber, and we had the frames for two small buildings up by dark.
Fiction book (1991) -
He came straight to Chicago and began a career as a downstate peddler, bringing horse-drawn wagonloads of household items on trips south from Chicago.
Academic text (1990) -
Somewhere buried in all of these statistics, there probably are wagonloads of other things—clothing, household items, shoes—one moment, I just remembered something.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
278
1.1
An amount of things carried at one time, like cargo on a vehicle
65
1.0
A large number or amount of things
45
2.9
A very large amount about as much as fills a truck
28
9.9
A very large amount of something used in rude speech
23
2.3
A group of people that a bus carries
18
3.5
A very large amount of something
17
1.8
A large pile of things or a large amount
9
2.9
A large number of people or things that fill a car
5
8.5
A very large amount of something said jokingly
4
3.8
The number of people or things on one plane trip
4
1.8
An amount that fills a bucket
3
9.1
A very large amount of something
3
2.5
A large amount of goods carried by a ship
2
3.5
An amount that fills a cart, often meaning a very large quantity
2
3.2
A large amount of goods that one train can carry
2
2.7
As many things as fit in a basket
2
4.4
An amount that fills a large suitcase or a car's storage space
1
3.2
An amount that fills a sack, like a large bag of apples
1
9.9
A very large amount of something used in rude, informal speech
1
3.4
An amount of goods that fills a van
1
1.0
A large number or amount of something
1
2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
1
2.7
An amount that fills a truck
1
3.0
A full load that fills a cart
1
8.2
A load of things that fills a car
1
8.1
An amount large enough to fill a ship with goods or people
An amount that fills a wagon
A full load of people or things in a boat
An amount that fills a wheelbarrow
An amount that fills a carton like a milk box
A very large amount of something you have or get
A very large amount of something said in a rude way
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Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember wagonload is to imagine so much of something that it would fill a wagon. The word joins wagon ('a cart') and load ('what you carry'), so it also means a very large amount.