town car
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.
noun
A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Her great-uncle was a wealthy man. The type who had a town car and who had a right-hand man to drive it."
- "They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference."