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car noun [ kɑː ]

• a four-wheeled road vehicle that is powered by an engine and is able to carry a small number of people.
• "she drove up in a car"
Similar: automobile, motor, machine, wheels, heap, crate, (old) banger, jalopy, limo, auto, hooptie, motor car, horseless carriage,
Origin: late Middle English (in the general sense ‘wheeled vehicle’): from Old Northern French carre, based on Latin carrum, carrus, of Celtic origin.


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