car
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
car/kɑː(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a powered road vehicle designed to carry a small number of people.
- 2 a railway carriage or (N. Amer.) wagon.
■ the passenger compartment of a lift, cableway, or balloon.
- 3 literary a chariot.
– derivatives
carful noun (pl. carfuls),
carload noun.
carful noun (pl. carfuls),
carload noun.
– origin ME: from Old North. Fr. carre, based on L. carrum, carrus, of Celtic origin.
'car' also found in these Oxford entries:
anchor
- auto
- Autobahn
- automobile
- back-seat driver
- banger
- Beemer
- black and white
- boot
- brougham
- bubble car
- buffet
- bumper car
- cable car
- cabriolet
- car bomb
- car boot sale
- car coat
- car crash
- carjacking
- carnelian
- car park
- car phone
- carpool
- carport
- carriole
- carryall
- carsick
- cart
- car wash
- chauffeur
- clamp
- clock
- club car
- cockpit
- compact car
- company car
- convertible
- coupé
- courtesy light
- cruiser
- deck
- dicky
- diner
- ding
- dining car
- dodgem
- doodlebug
- dragster
