English Explanatory Dictionary

Edsel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Etzel.
  2. An automobile marque that was planned, manufactured, and launched with great advertising hype by the Ford Motor Company in September 1957, but was a notorious failure.
noun
  1. Any unwanted product or commercial failure, especially one given much publicity.

Word forms

Edsel Edsels

Etymology

The automobile marque is named after Edsel Ford (1893–1943), son of Henry Ford. Compare German Etzel.

Synonyms

flop lead balloon lemon
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on E Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary