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Lexus

Lexus proper noun: a brand of high-end motor vehicle from the Toyota Motor Corporation.

Proper noun

Lexus (uncountable)

  1. A brand of high-end motor vehicle from the Toyota Motor Corporation.
    • The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022

Noun

Lexus (plural Lexuses)

  1. An automobile of this marque. Often used as an example of a luxury car or luxuriousness in general.
    • the Lexus of [product category]
    • the Lexus of microwave ovens
    Synonyms:
    Lexo

Examples of Lexus in a sentence

  • She cryin poor mouth but she pull up in a brand new Lexus? Who fallin for that?
  • a parking lot full of Cadillacs, Lexuses, and BMWs

Synonyms of Lexus

Forms of Lexus

pluralLexuses

Origin of Lexus

An invented word developed circa 1987 by Team One as the marketing team for the brand; said to have no specific meaning but to be euphonious and to evoke a luxurious and technological image (not unusual among car model name origins); for more, see Wikipedia at Lexus § History.

Words formed from Lexus

Phrases with Lexus

Questions about Lexus

What does Lexus mean?
Lexus means a brand of high-end motor vehicle from the Toyota Motor Corporation.
How do you use Lexus in a sentence?
She cryin poor mouth but she pull up in a brand new Lexus? Who fallin for that?
What part of speech is Lexus?
Lexus can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Lexus in the dictionary

  1. lexophile
  2. lexophiles
  3. Lexos
  4. lexpionage
  5. Lexton
  6. Lexus
  7. Lexus lane
  8. Lexus lanes
  9. Lexuses
  10. ley
  11. Ley Hill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lexus (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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