Meaning
tons, loads, wagonload
- a wagonload or carload
- a huge quantity or amount of something (figurative)
In a sentence
Hanno speso una vagonata di soldi per quel matrimonio.
They spent tons of money on that wedding.
Abbiamo ricevuto una vagonata di complimenti per il nuovo progetto.
We received heaps of compliments on the new project.
Non c'è una vagonata di opzioni tra cui scegliere.
There isn't a whole load of options to choose from.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| vagonata | feminine · singular |
| vagonate | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- Informal: widely used colloquially to express an enormous amount of something, usually with 'di'.
- Derived from 'vagone' (train wagon) using the suffix '-ata'.