Meanings
nounmode of transport (plural modes of transport)
plural modes of transport
- Any form of vehicle or system used to transport people or goods.
And you do have to ask: biplanes? Really? The choice of such an antiquated vehicle suggests that the film-makers had ticked off every other mode of transport in the course of the franchise's three-decade run, and so biplanes were pretty much all they had left.
2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 交通工具
- 交通工具 (jiāotōng gōngjù)vehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Dutch vervoermiddel
- vervoermiddelvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Finnish kuljetusväline, kulkuväline
- kuljetusvälinevehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- kulkuvälinevehicle or system used to transport people or goods
French mode de transport, moyen de transport
- mode de transportvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- moyen de transportvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
German Verkehrsmittel
- Verkehrsmittelvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Icelandic ferðamáti, flutningsmáti
- ferðamátivehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- flutningsmátivehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Indonesian moda, moda transportasi
- modavehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- moda transportasivehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Japanese 輸送手段
- 輸送手段 (yusō shudan)vehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Malay mod
- modvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Norwegian Bokmål transportmiddel
- transportmiddelvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Portuguese modo/meio/método de transporte
- modo/meio/método de transportevehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Russian вид тра́нспорта, тра́нспортное сре́дство
- вид тра́нспорта (vid tránsporta)vehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- тра́нспортное сре́дство (tránsportnoje srédstvo)vehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Spanish medio de transporte
- medio de transportevehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Swedish färdmedel, transportmedel
- färdmedelvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
- transportmedelvehicle or system used to transport people or goods
Cite this entry
APA
mode of transport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mode%20of%20transport
MLA
“mode of transport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mode%20of%20transport. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mode of transport,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mode%20of%20transport.
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