Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rumble seat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables: rum-ble seat
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, typically folding away into a rear storage compartment.

Dated

noun

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"I suspected I wouldn't care an awful lot for his companionship, so I put him and another one in the rumble seat, and with the other two in with me I found the trail back to the Parkway and turned south."
"Vito does a lot of his own felting, dealing direct with Indians who are apt to show up here at all hours with a rumble seat full of beaver hides […]."

Usage

Inflected Forms

rumble seats (plural)

Synonyms

rumble-tumble

Questions

What does rumble seat mean?: An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, typically folding away into a rear storage compartment.

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