car

ˈkär 1 syllable common

  1. noun.a vehicle moving on wheels: such as

    • The train has 20 cars.
    • traveled to Boston by car

  2. noun.carriage, chariot

  3. noun.a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad)

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Origin

Middle English carre "cart, wagon, small cartload," borrowed from Anglo-French carre, charre, going back to Late Latin carra, plural of carrum "vehicle, cart," going back to Latin, neuter variant of carrus "a kind of Gaulish wagon," borrowed from the Gaulish outcome of Celtic *kr̥s-o-, whence also Old Irish carr "cart, wagon," Welsh car "vehicle".

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2018