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sleeping cars

sleeping cars is the plural of sleeping car.

Meaning of sleeping car

Noun

sleeping car (plural sleeping cars)

  1. A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
    • In August 1859, eighty years ago, a sleeping car appeared on the Chicago & Alton Railroad of the United States, a great advance on the primitive facilities previously available.1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 360

Questions about sleeping cars

What is sleeping cars the plural of?
Sleeping cars is the plural of sleeping car.

Words near sleeping cars in the dictionary

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  2. Sleeping Beauty problems
  3. Sleeping Beauty syndrome
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  6. sleeping cars
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  8. sleeping dictionary
  9. sleeping draft
  10. sleeping drafts
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