car
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,406 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,094 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine also: auto, automobile, machine, motorcar he needs a car to get to work
- a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad also: railcar, railway car, railroad car three cars had jumped the rails
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant also: gondola
- where passengers ride up and down also: elevator car the car was on the top floor
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway also: cable car they took a cable car to the top of the mountain
car in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And be sure to take the car at the corner.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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John Cavendish was waiting on the platform, and piloted me out to the car.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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The two inmates of the car were insensible; their faces were bloodless, their cheeks sunken.
The Land of the Changing Sun · Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben · Chapter 1
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So the car was brought forth, and into it the witch leaped, and mounted into the sky.
The Firelight Fairy Book · Henry Beston · Chapter 1
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All this troop set themselves to work and constructed the most charming, the lightest little aerial car that one can possibly imagine.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1