car
/kɑɹ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.45 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
noun
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "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: […] ."
- "The race around the Interlagos circuit in São Paolo effectively became a 12-lap dash to the flag when Valtteri Bottas triggered the safety car after he pulled his Mercedes over with engine trouble."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɑɹ/
- British English: /kɑː/