Car

Quick meaning: Car is a noun meaning Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

Meaning

Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

More Meanings

1. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
2. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
3. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
4. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
5. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
6. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
7. (archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.

Example Sentences

He drove his car to the theatre.

He was thinking about buying a brand new car.

I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

Word Forms

• cars
• carr

Synonyms for car

Depending on context, synonyms include auto, motorcar, vehicle, automobile, motor, carriage.

Antonyms for car

Common opposites include cdr.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include automobile, motorcar, railcar, auto, gondola, machine.

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