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noun
1.
an automobile.
2.
a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car.
3.
the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries the passengers, freight, etc.
4.
British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm cart or wagon.
5.
EXPANDLiterary. a chariot, as of war or triumph.
6.
COLLAPSEArchaic. cart; carriage.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English carre < Anglo-French < Late Latin carra (feminine singular), Latin carra, neuter plural of carrum, variant of carrus < Celtic; compare Old Irish carr wheeled vehicle
1350–1400; Middle English carre < Anglo-French < Late Latin carra (feminine singular), Latin carra, neuter plural of carrum, variant of carrus < Celtic; compare Old Irish carr wheeled vehicle
Related forms
car·less, adjective
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Car
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- For some car aficionados, a vehicle takes on a personality all its own.
- Car companies are going to be evolving in that direction over time.
- Poor fuel economy can be a symptom of car trouble, or driver trouble.
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Origin:
1375–1425; Middle English (Scots ) < Scots Gaelic cearr
1375–1425; Middle English (Scots ) < Scots Gaelic cearr
CAR
computer-assisted retrieval.
Origin:
1980–85
1980–85
car.
carat; carats.
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World English Dictionary
| car (kɑː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. motorcar, Also called: automobile a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine |
| b. (as modifier): car coat | |
| 2. | a conveyance for passengers, freight, etc, such as a cable car or the carrier of an airship or balloon |
| 3. | (Brit) a railway vehicle for passengers only, such as a sleeping car or buffet car |
| 4. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) a railway carriage or van |
| 5. | chiefly (US) the enclosed platform of a lift |
| 6. | a poetic word for chariot |
| [C14: from Anglo-French carre, ultimately related to Latin carra, carrum two-wheeled wagon, probably of Celtic origin; compare Old Irish carr] | |
| CAR | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| compound annual return | |
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Word Origin & History
car
1301, "wheeled vehicle," from Norm.-Fr. carre, from L. carrum, carrus (pl. carra), orig. "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot," from Gaul. karros, from PIE *krsos, from base *kers- "to run." Extension to "automobile" is 1896. Car-sick first recorded 1908, on model of sea sick. U.S. carport is from 1939. Car
EXPANDbomb first 1972, in reference to Northern Ireland. Car pool is 1942 (n.), 1962 (v.).
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
CAR
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