limousine

Meanings

1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
2. An automobile with such a body.
3. A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.

1. Alternative form of Limousin (“former region in France”).

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.