Car Definition
kär
cars
noun
cars
Any vehicle on wheels.
Webster's New World
An automobile.
Webster's New World
A vehicle that moves on rails, as a streetcar.
Webster's New World
A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance.
An elevator car.
American Heritage
A chariot.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- elevator car
- railroad-car
- railway-car
- railcar
- gondola
- motorcar
- machine
- automobile
- auto
- cable-car
- motor-car
- wheels
- passenger-car
- nash
- motor
abbreviation
Carat(s)
Webster's New World
pronoun
The most widespread of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India (ISO 839-3 code "caq").
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Car
Noun
Singular:
car
Plural:
carsOrigin of Car
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Middle English carre cart from Old North French from Latin carra pl. of carrus, carrum a Gallic type of wagon kers- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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