English Explanatory Dictionary

car

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
  3. A cart.
  4. A chariot.
  5. A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
  6. Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
  7. An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.
  8. A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
  9. an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
  10. A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
  11. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
  12. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
noun
  1. The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
name
  1. The most widespread of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India (ISO 839-3 code "caq").
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Initialism of Central African Republic.
  2. Abbreviation of Carolina (North Carolina or South Carolina, states in the United States of America)
  3. Initialism of Cordillera Administrative Region.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of carnitine.
  2. Initialism of chimeric antigen receptor.

Pronunciation

/kɑː/ [kʰɑː] En-uk-a car.ogg [kʰäɾ] /kɑɹ/ [kʰɑ̝͗ɹ] En-us-car.ogg [kʰaː] /kaː/ [kʰäː] /kʰɑɹ/ /kʰʲæɹ/

Word forms

car cars carr

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.

Synonyms

auto motorcar vehicle automobile motor carriage cage cah car devil wagon horseless carriage motor car wheels whip railcar wagon carload wagonload gondola basket Car Nicobarese

Antonyms

cdr

Related words

carriage chariot bus truck van Carr ALC ALCAR DAC DLC LAC

Derived words

aerocar aircar anticar automocar big car buffer car bump car caraholic car alarm car attendant carbage car barn carbarn car battery carbeam car body car-body van car bomb car-bomb car boot car-booter car boot sale carborne car bra car brain car breaker car breaking carbuilder car carrier car cemetery car-centric car chase car clout car clouting carcoat car coat carcoon car crash carden cardening car door car equivalent unit carfare car ferry Car Festival carfie carfleet carfree car-free carful cargasm car gate car guard car-handed car hire carhop car hop car-hop carhouse car-house
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