bullet train

1. 1.

   a high-speed passenger train

   Synonymsbullet

   Broaderpassenger train

Questions about bullet train

What does bullet train mean?

bullet train means "a high-speed passenger train".

What is another word for bullet train?

Close synonyms include bullet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bullet train a common word?

bullet train is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.