traintime

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noun

The time when a railway train is scheduled to depart.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nountraintime (countable and uncountable, plural traintimes)

plural traintimes

  1. countableuncountableThe time when a railway train is scheduled to depart.

    The gemmuns'll be gone then, at traintime.

    1945, The New Yorker, volume 21, numbers 21-37, page 23
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    "What are you going to do until traintime?"

    1944, Liberty, volume 21, number 1

    (If, however, the space has been released not later than 1 hour before traintime, the ticket may be exchanged for accommodations between the same or more distant points on the same railroad for a trip starting within 7 days).

    1964, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Hearings 1964 (volume 2, page 16)

    […] the Permanent Commoners convening to their traintimes.

    2010, Scott Symons, Combat Journal for Place d'Armes: A Personal Narrative, page 61

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Chicago

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