The amount or quantity that a car can hold; the contents of one car when completely filled.
Combination of 'car' (from Latin 'carrus,' a wheeled vehicle) plus the suffix '-ful' (meaning the amount needed to fill). The modern sense developed in the early 1900s with automobile culture.
A 'carful' of people is the perfect size for a road trip party—historically, this word helped people measure things in terms of vehicles instead of just weight or volume!
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