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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deconditions

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

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 But the railroad is still operating its Florida service and moving ahead with plans for the true high speed trains between Las Vegas and Southern California. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 4 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 Lakes, mountains, forests and the endless islands are all within a few hours of Gothenburg so even without a car everything is accessible using the excellent trains, buses and ferries. — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026 Then, in 2007, it was closed again to replace the trains with lighter ones and reopened the next year as X2. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 The trains, which began operating on the Gold Line about two years ago, allow passengers to board at platform level and are designed to improve accessibility for riders. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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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 The performance starred Dani Hernández, a principal dancer who also directs the National Ballet School, where Roxana trains each day. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026 Its wind program trains the technicians who climb inside these increasingly large and sophisticated machines to maintain the electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical systems that keep them turning. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2026 Stunned at first by his opponent’s aggressiveness and the onslaught of personal attacks, Ted trains himself to withstand the barrages and to respond in kind. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trains

Noun

The bout was a big draw for glitterati, gangs and their entourages -- particularly from Southern California.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Long before private jets and sprawling entourages became standard for global superstars, Starr and his bandmates — Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison — were simply four young men navigating fame together, suitcase by suitcase.

— Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of entourages

Noun

SpaceX’s plans to retire Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 rocket mean the fleets are now well beyond halfway through their operational life.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
The airline this morning announced a major premium cabin overhaul that will bring new suites and premium economy seats to planes in both its Alaska and Hawaiian fleets.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of fleets

Noun

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
Long queues of cars at fuel stations have been seen in major cities, while hits on Russia’s largest online retailers have increased pressure on the already strained wartime economy.

— Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of queues

Noun

Despite not being produced by instruments as such, the sequences Stanton found playing in his ears were strangely musical; their arrangement, through its patterning, the dynamism of its counterpoint and dissonance, almost symphonic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
The film will shoot on location in New York City (for sequences chronicling her arrival by ship and her Broadway musicals), the Brazilian city of Maricá (standing in for Los Angeles) and Rio.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sequences

Verb

Ukraine has warned that such a satellite system would prove deadly in the coming winter as Russia prepares its attacks.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
The calls heap pressure on the coalition government to loosen its purse strings, threatening to undermine its reputation for fiscal discipline just as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to present his three-year fiscal plan later this month.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of prepares

Verb

One of the first of those is when their AI program teaches itself to beat the machine in a notoriously difficult video game.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Spasojevic, who teaches in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, is leading the university’s research into the local donkey population.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of teaches

Verb

Peptides and stem cells are two peas in the pod of regenerative medicine, which focuses on therapies that claim to trigger the body’s natural healing mechanisms.

— Margaret Manto, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
That is what Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald set out to change with her new book, which focuses on Black abolitionists.

— Sam Calhoun, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of focuses

Verb

The second, Stillpoint, aims to release and restore calm with a deep oil-free massage, along with rocking compressions, assisted stretches, and Kansa wand techniques.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2026
The project aims to run AI locally rather than rely entirely on cloud services, with Ajax intended to handle tasks such as web searches, browsing, email, calendars, and other daily activities.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026