car

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points: 5
Words With Friends: 6
Letters: 3

Pronunciation

/kɑː/

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/kɑː/ · [kʰɑː] · [kʰäɾ] · /kɑɹ/ · [kʰɑ̝͗ɹ] · [kʰaː] · /kaː/ · [kʰäː] · /kʰɑɹ/ · /kʰʲæɹ/

Definition of car

25 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

“in a car”
“He drove his car to the theatre.”
“He was thinking about buying a brand new car.”
“I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”
“If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .”

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noun

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

“in a car”
“He drove his car to the theatre.”
“He was thinking about buying a brand new car.”
“I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”
“If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .”
(archaic)A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.

“It shall suffice me to enioy your loue, Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great, As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete, With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.”
“He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus’ car.”
“The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe.”
“In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows.”
(archaic)A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
(archaic)A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
(UK, archaic, obsolete)A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
(Canada, US)Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

“The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.”
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

“The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.”
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

“From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.”
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

“We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.”
“This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.”
The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

“Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.”
The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

“The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.”
The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

“Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]”
“"What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."”
A sliding fitting that runs along a track.

“On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck.”
(US)A floating perforated box for living fish.
(US, slang)A clique or gang.
(Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling)Deliberate misspelling of cat.
The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

“The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.”
(abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of carnitine.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of chimeric antigen receptor.

name

The most widespread of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India (ISO 839-3 code "caq").
A surname.
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Central African Republic.

“Decades of conflict in CAR mirror the instability in other fragile African states where reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.”
(abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Carolina (North Carolina or South Carolina, states in the United States of America)
(Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Cordillera Administrative Region.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.