car

Clipping of English Carib or Spanish Caribe.

car

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kari'na.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kari'na terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑː/, [kʰɑː]

  • Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a car”:

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): [kʰäɾ]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑɹ/

  • Audio (General American):

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  • (Boston) IPA^(key): [kʰaː]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kaː/, [kʰäː]
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /kʰɑɹ/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /kʰʲæɹ/
• Homophones: carr, Carr, Karr
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.

• carr (archaic)

car (plural cars)

2. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.

   Synonyms: auto, motorcar, vehicle, (US) automobile, (Britain, colloquial) motor, (obsolete) carriage; see also Thesaurus:automobile

   He drove his car to the theatre.

   • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎^[1], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

     I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎^[2]:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

3. (archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
     Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
     As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
     With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
     Like holy Phoebus’ car.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:

     The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe.

   1. (archaic) A cart.
   2. (archaic) A chariot.
   3. (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
4. Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
   1. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.

      Synonyms: railcar, wagon, carriage

      The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

   2. A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.

      Hyponyms: mill car, mine car, quarry car, skip car

   3. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.

      The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.

   5. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.

      From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.

   6. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.

      Synonyms: carload, wagonload

      We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

      • 1907, Texas Agricultural, Mechanical College System, Bulletin, volumes 93-117, page 5:

        This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.

5. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

   Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

6. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

   Synonym: carriage

   The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

7. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

   Synonyms: gondola, (balloons only) basket

   • 1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:

     Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."

8. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
   • 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim‎^[3], →ISBN, page 201:

     On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck

9. (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.

   Buy now! You can get more car for your money.

10. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
11. (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
13. (Internet, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of cat.

• carriage
• chariot

• → French: car
• → Russian: кар (kar)
• ⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)
• → Japanese: カー (kā)
• → Hindi: कार (kār)
• → Urdu: کار (kār)

• bus
• truck
• van

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

car (plural cars)

1. (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

   Antonym: cdr

   Holonym: cons

   • 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

     The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

• cadr
• caddr

• A hydrogen-powered car
• Freight cars
• A self-propelled passenger car
• Ferris wheel cars
• Car on a sailboat
• Car of a Zeppelin

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “car”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “car”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• ARC, CRA, RAC, RCA, acr-, arc, arc-, rac-

• caru

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Compare Romanian car.

car n (plural cari)

1. chariot
2. ox-cart

• cãrutsã/carotsã
• cãrutsar
• caretã
• cherã

car

1. mouth

Inherited from Latin cārus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Mallorca, Menorca) [ˈka], (Ibiza) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car (feminine cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural cares)

1. expensive

   Synonyms: alt, costós

   Antonym: barat

2. (poetic) dear

   Synonyms: estimat, amat, apreciat

Inherited from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare French car.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car

1. (archaic) as, since, because, for

   Synonym: perquè

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάροιον (károion, “yard, spar”), from Ancient Greek κεραίᾱ (keraíā).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car m (plural cars)

1. (nautical) foreyard

• “car” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sar]
• Hyphenation: car
• Rhymes: -ar

car m anim

1. tsar

• “car”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “car”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

From Old French quer (“as, since, because, for”), from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare Catalan car.

car

1. as, since, because, for

   J’ai ouvert mon parapluie car il pleuvait.

   I opened my umbrella because it was raining.

   • c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Dossier de travail - Fragment n° 10 / 35”, in Pensées [Thoughts]‎^[4]:

     Car dans la création de l’homme Adam en était le témoin et le dépositaire de la promesse du sauveur qui devait naître de la femme, lorsque les hommes étaient encore si proches de la Création qu’ils ne pouvaient avoir oublié leur création et leur chute.

     For in the creation of man, Adam was the witness and the depositary of the promise of the saviour who would be born of woman, when the men were still so close to the Creation that they could not have forgotten their creation and their fall.

car is a coordinating conjunction while parce que is a subordinating conjunction.

• parce que (in some contexts)

Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.

car m (plural cars)

1. a single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus, a coach

   Synonym: autocar

   Les élèves vont à l’école en car. ― The pupils go to school by coach.

• “car” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “car” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “car”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• arc

car (comparative plus car, superlative le plus car)

1. dear; beloved; cherished
2. expensive

From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *karāti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /karˠ/

car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)

1. to love
2. be devoted to

• gráigh

Akin to Italian caro, from Latin carus.

car

1. dear

car

1. for (because)

• French: car

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cārus.

• Audio:

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car m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural caras)

1. dear
2. expensive

car oblique singular, m (oblique plural cars, nominative singular cars, nominative plural car)

1. alternative form of char

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car

1. dear

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: car

Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ). Doublet of cesarz, cezar, and kajzer.

car m pers

1. (historical) czar, tsar, tzar (title of the former emperors of Russia)

   Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka

See czar.

car m inan

1. (Lasovia) alternative form of czar

• car in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• car in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Szymon Matusiak (1880) “cary”, in “Gwara lasowska w okolicy Tarnobrzega, studyjum dyjalektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I) (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 171

From Latin carrus (“wagon; cart”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈkaɐ̯ɾ]

• (Ville Unite):

car m (plural chër) (Ville Unite)

1. wagon, cart

• IPA^(key): [kar]

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Sense 3 is influenced by French char and/or Italian carro armato.

car n (plural care)

1. cart
2. chariot
3. (outdated) tank (military vehicle)

• căruță
• cărare
• căra
• caretă
• încărca

car

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

From Latin caries or carius. Doublet of carie.

• cariu (dated)

car m (plural cari)

2. death-watch beetle

From Romani kar.

car m (plural car)

1. (vulgar slang) dick, cock (the penis)

• cocar
• carici

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰaɾ/^[1]

car m (genitive singular cuir, plural caran)

1. job
2. twist, turn
3. trick (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. bit

• aig a' char as lugha
• aig a' char as miosa
• cuir car de

car

1. somewhat, quite, rather

   Tha thu car fadalach. ― You're somewhat late.

   Thàinig an stòiridh gu ceann car obann. ― The story came to an end somewhat abruptly.

• caran

From Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, *cьsarь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sâr/

cȁr m anim (Cyrillic spelling ца̏р)

1. czar, emperor, monarch

   Podajte caru carevo, a Bogu Božje. ― Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor and God what belongs to God.

   • 1971, Branko B. Radičević, Baš-Čelik, Belgrade, page 1:

     Bijaše jedan car, i imađaše tri sina i tri ćerke.

     There once was a tsar and he had three daughters and three sons.

• cȁrevina
• cȁrica
• cȁrina
• cȃrstvo

• “car”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Serbo-Croatian cȁr, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sàːr/, /t͡sáːr/

cār m anim (female equivalent caríca or cārinja)

1. tsar

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	cár
gen. sing.	cárja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	cár	cárja	cárji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	cárja	cárjev	cárjev
dative (dajȃlnik)	cárju	cárjema	cárjem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	cár	cárja	cárje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	cárju	cárjih	cárjih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	cárjem	cárjema	cárji

• césar

• “car”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Latin quārē (“why”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ/ [ˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: car

car

1. (archaic) because

   Synonym: porque

• “car”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• IPA^(key): [tʃar]

car (nominative plural cars)

1. (weaponry) bow

From Middle Welsh carr, from Proto-Brythonic *karr, from Proto-Celtic *karros.

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car m (plural ceir)

1. car
2. (obsolete) cart, wagon

   Synonyms: cart, cert, trol, men

• carwden (“backband”)
• rhif car (“registration number”)
• sêl cist car (“car boot sale”)

From Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car

1. car

   Synonym: truckle

   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 6:

     An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,

     And away went her eggs, with the car overset.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[5], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129

car

1. god