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automobiling

automobiling is the present participle and gerund of automobile.

Meaning of automobile

Verb

automobile (third-person singular simple present automobiles, present participle automobiling, simple past and past participle automobiled)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To travel by automobile.
    • The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.1909, “"How Can He Do It?"”, in Notions and Fancy Goods, volume 43, page 30

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Questions about automobiling

What is automobiling the present participle and gerund of?
Automobiling is the present participle and gerund of automobile.

Words near automobiling in the dictionary

  1. automobileless
  2. automobilery
  3. automobiles
  4. automobilia
  5. automobiliana
  6. automobiling
  7. automobilism
  8. automobilist
  9. automobilistic
  10. automobilists
  11. automobilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: automobiling (page history and authors); automobile (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.

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