Meaning

(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops..

Definitions by Sense

1. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
2. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
3. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
4. (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
5. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
6. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
7. An express rifle.
8. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.

Example Sentences

I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.

This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.

Beginning with the next issue, which will be the January, 1950, issue, this magazine will be published on the first of every month. This step has been taken at the express wish of readers despite the present paper and production difficulties.

In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.

Soon as the potion works, their human countenance, / The express resemblance of the gods, is changed / Into some brutish form, of wolf, or bear, / Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, / All other parts remaining as they were[…]

Tesco Express

McDonald's Express

I took the express into town.

Word Forms

• more express
• most express
• expresses
• expressing
• expressed

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Use express when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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