load

CEFRB1

/loʊd/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    The amount of something carried or placed somewhere.

  2. 02

    verb

    To put something into a vehicle, machine, or container.

Examples

  • It took a load off my mind when our team won the championship.

  • The load was too heavy for a driver to carry alone.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ləʊd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

  2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

  3. A burden; a weight to be carried.

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In context

  • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

  • She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.

  • The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”). Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning. Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive ar...