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e-scooter

/ˈiːˌskuːtə(ɹ)//ˈiˌskutɚ/

e-scooter noun: a variant of a kick scooter powered by an electric motor.

e-scooter: a variant of a kick scooter powered by an electric motor
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Noun (1)

e-scooter (plural e-scooters)

  1. A variant of a kick scooter powered by an electric motor.
    • Transport for London and the Tyne & Wear Metro have banned the use of privately owned e-scooters on railway premises from December 13, while ScotRail and Avanti West Coast are also restricting their use. The London edict, with warnings of £1,000 fines for offenders, follows two instances of...2021 December 29, “Network News: E-scooters ban widens after fires”, in RAIL, number 947, page 12
    • My bet is that, in cities at least, the e-car won’t be the vehicle of the future. I suspect it will keep falling further behind e-bikes, e-mopeds and e-scooters.2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024

Noun (2) capitalized: E-Scooter

E-Scooter (plural E-Scooters)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of e-scooter.

Synonyms of e-scooter

Forms of e-scooter

plurale-scooters
alternative formescooter
alternative formE-Scooter
pluralE-Scooters

Origin of e-scooter

From e- + scooter.

Words formed from e-scooter

Questions about e-scooter

What does e-scooter mean?
E-scooter means a variant of a kick scooter powered by an electric motor.
What part of speech is e-scooter?
E-scooter is a noun.
How do you pronounce e-scooter?
E-scooter is pronounced /ˈiːˌskuːtə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of e-scooter?
The plural of e-scooter is e-scooters.

Words near e-scooter in the dictionary

  1. e-schools
  2. e-science
  3. e-scientific
  4. e-scientist
  5. e-scientists
  6. e-scooter
  7. e-scooterer
  8. e-scooterers
  9. e-scooterist
  10. e-scooterists
  11. e-scooters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: e-scooter (page history and authors); E-Scooter (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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