Phrase guide

express train

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Examples

  • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

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Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: rychlík — a train making limited stops
  • Danish: hurtigtog — a train making limited stops
  • Danish: lyntog — a train making limited stops
  • Danish: iltog — a train making limited stops
  • Dutch: exprestrein — a train making limited stops
  • Dutch: sneltrein — a train making limited stops
  • Esperanto: eksprestrajno — a train making limited stops
  • Estonian: kiirrong — a train making limited stops
  • Finnish: pikajuna — a train making limited stops
  • Finnish: kiitojuna — a train making limited stops
  • French: train express — a train making limited stops
  • French: rapide — a train making limited stops
  • German: Schnellzug — a train making limited stops
  • German: Intercity — a train making limited stops
  • German: ICE — a train making limited stops
  • German: Eilzug — a train making limited stops
  • Hungarian: gyorsvonat — a train making limited stops
  • Hungarian: expresszvonat — a train making limited stops
  • Italian: treno espresso — a train making limited stops
  • Italian: espresso — a train making limited stops
  • Italian: express — a train making limited stops
  • Italian: EXP — a train making limited stops
  • Japanese: 特急 (tokkyū) — a train making limited stops
  • Japanese: 急行 (kyūkō) — a train making limited stops
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ekspresstog — a train making limited stops
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ekspresstog — a train making limited stops
  • Pannonian Rusyn: швидки гайзибан (švidki hajziban) — a train making limited stops
  • Pannonian Rusyn: шнелцуґ (šnelcug) — a train making limited stops
  • Polish: pociąg pospieszny — a train making limited stops
  • Polish: pospieszny — a train making limited stops
  • Portuguese: trem expresso — a train making limited stops
  • Romanian: tren expres — a train making limited stops
  • Russian: экспре́сс (eksprɛ́ss) — a train making limited stops
  • Russian: курье́рский по́езд (kurʹjérskij pójezd) — a train making limited stops
  • Spanish: tren expreso — a train making limited stops
  • Spanish: Ter — a train making limited stops
  • Spanish: TER — a train making limited stops
  • Swedish: expresståg — a train making limited stops
  • Swedish: snälltåg — a train making limited stops