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town car

town car noun: a car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.

Noun

town car (plural town cars)

  1. A car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.
    • Her great-uncle was a wealthy man. The type who had a town car and who had a right-hand man to drive it.
    Synonyms:
    coupé de ville
  2. (informal) A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan.
    • They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference.
  3. (nonstandard) Synonym of city car.
    Synonyms:
    city car

Synonyms of town car

Forms of town car

pluraltown cars

Questions about town car

What does town car mean?
Town car means a car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.
What part of speech is town car?
Town car is a noun.
What is the plural of town car?
The plural of town car is town cars.

Words near town car in the dictionary

  1. town bicycles
  2. town bike
  3. town bikes
  4. town camp
  5. town camps
  6. town car
  7. town cars
  8. town center
  9. town centers
  10. town centre
  11. town centres

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