Landau meaning

lăndô, -dou
A four-wheeled carriage with front and back passenger seats that face each other and a roof in two sections that can be lowered or detached.
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A style of automobile with a similar roof.
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A four-wheeled covered carriage with the top in two sections, either of which can be lowered independently.
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A former style of automobile with a top whose back could be folded down.
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(person) 1908-68; Soviet theoretical physicist.
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A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
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A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages.
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Origin of landau

  • After Landau , a city of southwest Germany

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Named after the German city of Landau where such carriages were first made.

    From Wiktionary

Landau Sentence Examples

  • Dr Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, and the marquis of Conyngham, bearing the news of the king's death, started in a landau with four horses for Kensington, which they reached at five o'clock.

  • The province is well served by railway communication and, for purposes of administration, is divided into the following 16 districts: Bergzabern, Diirkheim, Frankenthal, Germersheim, Homburg, Kaiserslautern, Kirchheimbolanden, Kusel, Landau, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt, Pirmasens, Rockenhausen, St Ingbert, Spires and Zweibriicken.

  • Spires (Speyer) is the seat of government, and the chief industrial centres are Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, which is the principal river port, Landau, and Neustadt, the seat of the wine trade.

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