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Buick

/ˈbjuːɪk/

Buick proper noun: a surname.

buick: a surname
Image: Buik, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Buick

  1. A surname.
  2. An American car brand belonging to GM.
    • Buick is offering a bigger color palette this year, courtesy of the chemical wizardry of DuPont.

Noun

Buick (plural Buicks)

  1. A car of this make.
    • They've owned several Buicks over the years. Their newest one is a crossover model.
    • Eleven Cubans in a vintage Buick — three of them the original “truckonauts” who tried a similar intrepid journey last year aboard a battered Chevy pickup — were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard early Wednesday and now face a return trip to the communist island.2004 May 2, Tere Figueras, Luisa Yanez, “Cubans’ Buick pulled over at sea”, in The Miami Herald

Forms of Buick

pluralBuicks

Origin of Buick

The surname is a variant of Bewick; the brand is named after Scottish-American inventor David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929).

Questions about Buick

What does Buick mean?
Buick means a surname.
What part of speech is Buick?
Buick can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Buick?
Buick is pronounced /ˈbjuːɪk/.

Words near Buick in the dictionary

  1. BUI
  2. buibui
  3. buibuis
  4. Buice
  5. Buices
  6. Buick
  7. Buicks
  8. buie
  9. Buikema
  10. Buikemas
  11. build

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Buick (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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