car
pronunciation
How to pronounce car in British English:
UK [kɑː(r)]
How to pronounce car in American English:
US [kɑːr]
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- Noun:
- 4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- car suspended from an airship and carrying personnel and cargo and power plant
- where passengers ride up and down
Word Origin
- car
- car: [14] Car seems first to have been used as an independent term for a road vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine in 1896, in the publication Farman’s Auto-Cars (the compounds autocar and motorcar are a year earlier). But the word is of course of far longer standing as a general term for a wheeled conveyance. It comes ultimately from an unrecorded Celtic *karros, via Latin carrus ‘two-wheeled wagon’, Vulgar Latin *carra, and Anglo-Norman carre or car; it is probably linked with current and course, giving an underlying meaning ‘move swiftly’.English words derived at some point or other from the same source include career, carriage, carry, charge, and chariot.=> career, caricature, carriage, carry, charge, chariot, course, current
- car (n.)
- c. 1300, "wheeled vehicle," from Anglo-French carre, Old North French carre, from Vulgar Latin *carra, related to Latin carrum, carrus (plural carra), originally "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot," from Gaulish karros, a Celtic word (compare Old Irish and Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot"), from PIE *krsos, from root *kers- "to run" (see current (adj.)). "From 16th to 19th c. chiefly poetic, with associations of dignity, solemnity, or splendour ..." [OED]. Used in U.S. by 1826 of railway freight carriages and of passenger coaches on a railway by 1830; by 1862 of a streetcar or tramway car. Extension to "automobile" is by 1896, but from 1831 to the first decade of 20c. the cars meant "railroad train." Car bomb first 1972, in reference to Northern Ireland. The Latin word also is the source of Italian and Spanish carro, French char.
Synonym
Example
- 1. This car is a brand shaper .
- 2. For the car better if there were two .
- 3. Does the plan cover the car or the driver ?
- 4. There are automatic sliding glass doors between each car .
- 5. Flying a car to hogwarts !