Kilo Lingo

/treɪl/

Line drawing of trail
Coloured illustration of trail
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Translation

A path through the countryside, or the line of marks that someone or something leaves behind.

Word origin

From Old French trailler, to drag along, from Latin tragula, a net that is dragged.

Origin
Old French
Root
trailler

Examples

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A trail is a narrow path through wild country.

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Here the trail is the smell and marks left behind.

footprints.

A trail of things is a line of them left behind.

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This word is part of lesson 45.