kar

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

   Synonyms:

   auto, motorcar, vehicle, automobile, motor, carriage, cage, cah, devil wagon, horseless carriage

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

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