terminal

Pronunciation: /ˈtɚmɪnəl/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
  2. noun a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
  3. noun either extremity of something that has length

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

In classic literature

Synonyms

terminus, depot

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
station
Narrower (hyponyms)
railway station, bus terminal, cathode, air terminal, subway station

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