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AWD

AWD is the initialism of all-wheel drive.

Meaning of all-wheel drive

Noun

all-wheel drive (countable and uncountable, plural all-wheel drives)

  1. A wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously, particularly where power is directed to the wheels with the best contact with the ground.
    • The brave German car's all-wheel drive tackled and spun through almost eight inches of loosely plowed snow.2012, L.B. Gregg, Men of Smithfield: Mark and Tony, page 123

Forms of AWD

pluralAWDs

Questions about AWD

What is AWD the initialism of?
AWD is the initialism of all-wheel drive.

Words near AWD in the dictionary

  1. awaze
  2. AWB
  3. Awbrey
  4. Awbreys
  5. AWBs
  6. AWD
  7. Awdal
  8. awdl
  9. awdlau
  10. awdls
  11. Awdry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: AWD (page history and authors); all-wheel drive (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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