Word.ws English Dictionary

auto body

auto body noun: the outer shell of a car (or any similarly sized motor vehicle), as opposed to the chassis.

Noun

auto body (plural auto bodies)

  1. (countable) The outer shell of a car (or any similarly sized motor vehicle), as opposed to the chassis.
    • Near-synonyms: bodywork (uncountable), coachwork (uncountable)
  2. (uncountable) The field, business, or occupation of repairing such bodies.
    • Near-synonyms: bodywork, coachwork
    • He took an auto body course at the tech school. He works in auto body. He likes this brand of tools because they have an extensive auto body line.
    Synonyms:
    bodywork, coachwork

Synonyms of auto body

Forms of auto body

pluralauto bodies
alternative formautobody

Questions about auto body

What does auto body mean?
Auto body means the outer shell of a car (or any similarly sized motor vehicle), as opposed to the chassis.
What part of speech is auto body?
Auto body is a noun.
What is the plural of auto body?
The plural of auto body is auto bodies.

Words near auto body in the dictionary

  1. Autler-Townes effects
  2. auto
  3. auto battler
  4. auto battlers
  5. auto bodies
  6. auto body
  7. auto camp
  8. auto camps
  9. auto caption
  10. auto captions
  11. auto clutch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: auto body (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “auto body.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/auto_body. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.