Toyota

Borrowed from Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔɪˈəʊtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɪˈoʊtə/, /taɪˈoʊtə/, [tɔɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə], [taɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]
• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Toyota (countable and uncountable, plural Toyotas)

1. (countable) A surname from Japanese.
2. A city near Nagoya in Japan, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
3. (automotive) The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
   • 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds.

4. (automotive) A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.

   Coordinate term: Lexus

   • 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:

     It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

Toyota (plural Toyotas)

2. (automotive) A car of the brand Toyota

   Hyponym: Prius

• Toyota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toyota, Aichi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toyota website

• IPA^(key): /toˈjoːta/

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Toyota n (proper noun, strong, genitive Toyotas)

1. Toyota (company)

Toyota m (strong, genitive Toyotas or Toyota, plural Toyotas or Toyota)

1. Toyota (car of that company)

Toyota

1. Rōmaji transcription of とよた

Borrowed from Japanese 豊田 (Toyota) or Japanese トヨタ (Toyota).

• Hyphenation: To‧yo‧ta

Toyota m (plural Toyotas)

1. A car manufactured by the automotive company Toyota.