Platformful
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The amount that is on a platform.
"They had been a thousand feet above Coombe and Malden station; fifty seconds after they whizzed, at a frightful pace, not eighty feet above the East Putney station, on the Metropolitan District line, to the screaming astonishment of a platformful of people."
Example
More examples"They had been a thousand feet above Coombe and Malden station; fifty seconds after they whizzed, at a frightful pace, not eighty feet above the East Putney station, on the Metropolitan District line, to the screaming astonishment of a platformful of people."
Etymology
From platform + -ful.
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