TRAINS Synonyms: 179 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of train

as in entourages

a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person a movie star who never goes anywhere without a train of personal assistants to cater to his every whim and need

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as in fleets

a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management a train of supply trucks making its way to the army encampment

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as in queues

a series of persons or things arranged one behind another already a long train of ticket buyers waiting outside the stadium

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as in sequences

a series of things linked together you've broken my train of thought—now what were we talking about?

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trains

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verb

present tense third-person singular of train

as in prepares

to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years

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as in teaches

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field will train the students in good study habits

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as in focuses

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game

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as in aims

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye

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as in equips

to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits

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Recent Examples of trains

Noun

Right now, 14 trains run from Rancho Cucamonga to Los Angeles' Union Station every day. — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Diesel is a fuel used by trucks, trains and ships that transport goods to stores. — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 Diesel, the workhorse fuel that powers trucks, tractors and trains, remains near all-time highs. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 That arrangement is efficient for moving large volumes over long distances, but assembling trains and coordinating terminal operations can make smaller, short-haul shipments less economical. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026 The route is expected to come into service next summer, albeit using slower trains that won’t cover the planned 316 miles. — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026 The backstory In the late 1800s, the Canadian Pacific Railway company began building grand hotels throughout Canada to house passengers traveling on their trains. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Experts back then warned that as trains got faster, passengers would suffocate, or that looking at unnaturally fast-moving scenery could permanently compromise visual processing. — Mark P. Mills, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026 My first inklings of this came in random encounters with Chinese people, in bank lines, on trains, or on the sidelines of public events. — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Verb

The program trains four participants at a time for four months, Emily Morgan, vice president of external relations at Life Unlimited previously said in an email. — Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 Dior himself understood the importance of people connecting a house and its clients so, keeping with that, this Paris campus trains the brand’s employees to be its ambassadors. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Their owners volunteer through an organization called Lend a Heart, a volunteer group that trains the dogs for this kind of therapy. — Melissa May, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 The program trains in languages, tech skills, and business acumen. — Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Through the Empower Culinary and Hospitality School, the hotel trains tea pickers’ children and now has a couple of budding chefs in their kitchen. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Anyone who trains their eyes too closely on one policy adjustment risks missing the forest for the trees. — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026 Bayne, who trains in jiujitsu and Krav Maga self-defense, said extensive jury trial experience has prepared him to be an effective judge . — Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 That's an approach that trains investigators to act in a way that anticipates how trauma survivors might respond differently after an assault, which can include impacts to their behavior and memory. — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trains

Noun

Outside, a throng of revelers were waiting to navigate the same journey as Williams, McRae, and their respective entourages.

— Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
The bout was a big draw for glitterati, gangs and their entourages -- particularly from Southern California.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of entourages

Noun

Its potential advantages include simpler integration, more consistent operator interfaces and greater flexibility in configuring robotic fleets.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Commercial fleets are speeding toward electrification—especially in Europe, where registrations of electric light commercial vehicles increased by nearly 70% in 2025.

— Matt Alderton, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of fleets

Noun

With queues that wrap around the block, fans of Kim Kardashian can also visit Lane Crawford’s NikeSkims corner for a more breezy shopping experience.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Contact centers had spent decades organizing high volumes of work into queues, tracking outcomes, and building a body of past interactions.

— David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of queues

Noun

Harris also helped shape the movie’s imagination sequences, pushing Pixar’s artists toward more spontaneous, painterly images rather than the studio’s usual meticulous realism.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
This is one shape of [a] research project of systematizing and scaling up searching for useful new tools in large databases and DNA sequences.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of sequences

Verb

The opening of the new facility comes as Merck prepares for the upcoming loss of exclusivity of Keytruda, which is one of the world's top-selling drugs and is widely viewed as the backbone of modern cancer treatment.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
The in-progress development notably includes insurance company Lockton’s future global headquarters in a new 176-foot tower as the firm prepares to move to Leawood from Country Club Plaza.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of prepares

Verb

Independent retail teaches you to forecast off real reorders instead of hopeful projections, and to line up production with what is actually moving.

— Joel Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
As Stephen Sondheim teaches us, (forgettable) content dictates (forgettable) form.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of teaches

Verb

The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor focuses on the frustration in some suburban neighborhoods about the state law that bypasses local zoning rules.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Personal legal responsibility focuses minds on safety, builds public trust and helps ensure that the race among AI leaders to come out on top doesn’t come at everyone else’s expense.

— Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of focuses

Verb

The Congolese government aims to take over by next year, but has struggled with the recent uncertainty, said Polydor Kabila, coordinator of the universal healthcare program in the president's office.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
To help close that gap, the Netherlands aims to build 7 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2050.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026