Vehicle Definition

vēĭ-kəl

vehicles

noun

vehicles

Any device or contrivance for carrying or conveying persons or objects, esp. over land or in space, as an automobile, bicycle, sled, or spacecraft.

Webster's New World

A means by which thoughts are expressed or made known.

Music as the vehicle for one's ideas.

Webster's New World

A self-propelled conveyance that runs on tires; a motor vehicle.

American Heritage

A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished.

His novels are a vehicle for his political views.

American Heritage

In a metaphor, that word or term whose usual, literal meaning is applied in a figurative, nonliteral way to the tenor.

In “all the world's a stage”, “world” is the tenor and “stage” is the vehicle.

Webster's New World

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Other Word Forms of Vehicle

Singular:

vehicle

Plural:

vehicles

From French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance"), from vehere (“to carry").

From Wiktionary
Latin vehiculum from vehere to carry wegh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition