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Hyundai

UK/haɪˈʌn.daɪ/US/ˈh(j)ʌn.deɪ/

Hyundai noun: a car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.

Noun

Hyundai (plural Hyundais)

  1. A car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.
    • She could just imagine him wilting as Janice made insinuations about his boy-executive clothes, his Hyundai, the section of town he lived in, the school he had gone to.1991, Writing Center of New Mexico State University, Puerto Del Sol, volume 26, page 201
    • He had been such an ineffectual thief that the store-owner had seized the weapon from King and sent him running for his Hyundai as the store-owner took down the license plate number.2007, Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 338

Forms of Hyundai

pluralHyundais

Origin of Hyundai

Borrowed from Korean 현대(現代) (hyeondae, “modern times”). The Hyundai Motor Group takes its name from the conglomerate with which it was historically affiliated, the Hyundai Group.

Questions about Hyundai

What does Hyundai mean?
Hyundai means a car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.
What part of speech is Hyundai?
Hyundai is a noun.
How do you pronounce Hyundai?
Hyundai is pronounced /haɪˈʌn.daɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of Hyundai?
The plural of Hyundai is Hyundais.

Words near Hyundai in the dictionary

  1. hythes
  2. hyttsjöite
  3. hyuck
  4. hyuk
  5. Hyun
  6. Hyundai
  7. Hyundais
  8. hyung
  9. hyung line
  10. hyung lines
  11. hyungs

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