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say it: KAHR-lohd
carload is a noun meaning "a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile". It is pronounced /ˈkɑɹˌloʊd/ — KAHR-lohd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile
the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car
“he imported wine by the boatload”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carload come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.