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car (kär)

noun

  1. any vehicle on wheels
  2. Old Poet. a chariot
  3. ☆ a vehicle that moves on rails, as a streetcar
  4. an automobile
  5. ☆ elevator ()
  6. the part of a balloon or airship for carrying people and equipment

Etymology: ME & NormFr carre < L carrum, carrus, orig., two-wheeled Celtic war chariot < Gaul carros (OIr carr) < IE *ṛsos < base *ers-, to run > L currere, to run, cursus, course

car2 definition

car

carat(s)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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