carful

Thân thiện

A family loads a carful of luggage into their station wagon.

Definition

Noun: - The quantity that a car will hold: This refers to the maximum amount of people or items that can fit inside a standard passenger car.

Usage

• Used as a countable noun to specify a quantity measured by the capacity of a car.
• Typically precedes "of" to indicate what the car is holding (e.g., a carful of people, a carful of groceries).

Examples

• We arrived at the picnic with a carful of hungry children.
• She brought a carful of donations to the charity center.
• After shopping, they loaded a carful of supplies for the trip.

Advanced Usage

• Can be used figuratively to emphasize a large, unmanageable quantity that seems to fill a car.
  • He showed up with a carful of excuses for being late.

Variants and Related Words

• Car: (n) The vehicle itself.
• -ful suffix: A suffix forming nouns meaning "the amount that fills" (e.g., handful, spoonful, roomful).

Synonyms

• A carload: Has a very similar meaning, often used interchangeably.
• A full car: A more descriptive phrase with the same meaning.

Notes

• This is a compound noun formed from "car" + the suffix "-ful." It functions as a single, specific unit of measurement.
• It is not commonly used for the cargo capacity of trucks or vans; terms like "truckload" or "vanload" are used instead.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the quantity that a car will hold