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cah

cah is the pronunciation spelling of car.

Meaning of car

Noun

car (plural cars)

  1. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
    • in a car
  2. (archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
    • It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
      Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
      As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
      With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC...
    1. (archaic) A cart.
      • So it was agreed that the farmer shud sind his car to take his little bit o' furniture, an' that he shud remove an the following Thursday.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 526
    2. (archaic) A chariot.
    3. (UK, archaic, obsolete, Birmingham) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
  3. (Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.
    • The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
    Synonyms:
    railcar, wagon, carriage

See all 19 meanings of car

Conjunction

cah

  1. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang) Because.
    • Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta
    • Man said 1 out of a benners lool bro sack your dealer & pick up off man cah that is brazyyy 🤣🤣2020 October 14, @SHBK4L, Twitter

Noun capitalized: CAH

CAH (countable and uncountable, plural CAHs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of calcium aluminate hydrate.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of crime against humanity.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of critical-access hospital.

Proper noun capitalized: CAH

CAH

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Community of All Hallows.

Forms of cah

Noun
pluralcahs
pluralCAHs
Conjunction
alternative formcuh

Origin of cah

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole cah (“because”). Ultimately from English because.

Questions about cah

What does cah mean?
Cah means because.
What is cah the pronunciation spelling of?
Cah is the pronunciation spelling of car.
What part of speech is cah?
Cah can be a conjunction, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near cah in the dictionary

  1. Cagusu-an
  2. Cagutsan
  3. Cagwait
  4. cagy
  5. cagyness
  6. cah
  7. Cahaba
  8. Cahagnaan
  9. Cahal
  10. Cahalan
  11. Cahalane

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cah (page history and authors); CAH (page history and authors); car (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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