rolls-royce
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.
noun
A car made by this manufacturer.
Example Sentences
- "‘What is the most expensive car?’ she had once asked Stan. ‘A cad – Cadillac or a Rolls,’ Stan had said, and sometimes Raoul had a Cadillac, sometimes a Rolls-Royce."
- "And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly."
- "the Rolls-Royce of chocolate"
- "But for an aspiring animation cartoonist, getting a job at Walt Disney was like hitting the major leagues—the Rolls Royce of animation. Now here we were walking down Dopey Drive and making a right at Mickey Avenue."
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RR
R.R.