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# hatful

«hatful» in Mova's school dictionary: **The amount a hat can hold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hatful, hatfuls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The amount a hat can hold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#m1)

2) (informal) A large number: «He scored a hatful of goals.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

The ending -ful makes measuring nouns: spoonful, handful, cupful, hatful. In Alice in Wonderland, the Hatter sells hats, and a hatful of something would be a funny measure. In sports news, «a hatful of goals» means lots of goals.

### examples

- She picked a hatful of strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#x1)
- He scored a hatful of goals this season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#x2)
- The magician pulled a hatful of ribbons out of the hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#x3)
- We collected a hatful of conkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#x4)
- A hatful of water spilled on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/#x5)

### note

Plural hatfuls (not «hatsful»). Like spoonful — spoonfuls, handful — handfuls. In maths it is not an exact measure.

### In the corpora

- [And Toad wouldn't come here alone for a hatful of gold!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hatful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.