stationful

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noun

As much as fits in a station.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounstationful (plural stationfuls)

plural stationfuls

  1. As much as fits in a station.

    We have a stationful of drunks, none of them caddies.

    2013, John Logue, Follow the Leader
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    One good companion is better than a stationful of gadding and gossiping acquaintances.

    1873, Saint Pauls Magazine - Volume 13, page 160

    […] were the insides of small rooms, stationfuls of hawkers going somewhere, rooms like mine, lights gratefully sleeping on the rivers allowing momentary respite to the watchers, lovers, loners, plain-clothes thieves and such.

    1989, Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever, page 13

    Contributing to the ensuing bedlam was the salute of the Rochester Brass Band which accompanied the American delegation and which now greeted the jubilant stationful of fanatics with the strains of " Yankee Doodle " and "Long Live the Queen."

    2006, Bill Freeman, Hamilton: A People's History, page 57

Origin

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APA

stationful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stationful

MLA

“stationful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stationful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stationful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stationful.

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