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motor-cycle

motor-cycle is the dated form of motorcycle.

Meaning of motorcycle

Noun

motorcycle (plural motorcycles)

  1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
    • Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.1995 October, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36

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Forms of motor-cycle

pluralmotor-cycles

Questions about motor-cycle

What is motor-cycle the dated form of?
Motor-cycle is the dated form of motorcycle.

Words near motor-cycle in the dictionary

  1. motor-ambulances
  2. motor-boat
  3. motor-boats
  4. motor-coach
  5. motor-coaches
  6. motor-cycle
  7. motor-cycles
  8. motor-home
  9. motor-homes
  10. motor-mouth
  11. motor-mouths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: motor-cycle (page history and authors); motorcycle (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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