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View synonyms for automobile

automobile

[ aw-tuh-muh-beel, aw-tuh-muh-beel, aw-tuh-moh-beel, -buhl ]

noun

  1. a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine. hybrid ( def 5b ).


adjective

  1. of or relating to automobiles; automotive.

automobile

/ -ˈməʊbɪlɪst; ˌɔːtəməˈbiːlɪst; ˈɔːtəməˌbiːl /

noun

  1. another word (esp US) for car
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • automobilist, noun
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Other Words From

  • au·to·mo·bil·ist [aw-t, uh, -m, uh, -, bee, -list, -, moh, -bi-list], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of automobile1

1865–70; < French: literally, self-movable (vehicle). See auto- 1, mobile
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Example Sentences

She was speaking about the Dale—a three-wheeled, low-cost, high-efficiency car, which she claimed would upend America’s automobile industry.

From Time

If a once-in-a-century pandemic and a historic recession were not enough, India’s hard-pressed automobile sector has now run into yet another speedbump.

From Quartz

This time, environmental justice advocates are putting pressure on an international automobile manufacturer to use zero-emission trucks, even though they’re not commercially available yet.

In seeking revenue for this vision, SANDAG has the opportunity to add another big move – a gasoline tax that can both provide the necessary resources to achieve its vision and an incentive to chip away at our dependence on automobiles.

A number of visionary entrepreneurs, Henry Ford being one, designed automobiles in Detroit, and eventually, Detroit became known as The Motor City.

Strange was a surgeon who lost the use of his hands in an automobile accident.

The massive automobile and bank bailouts were the cherries on top.

Because the automobile essentially was a motorized quadricycle.

He claimed that any serious conversation about poverty must include the issue of automobile access.

But what if some of the money went instead towards increasing automobile access?

There was a time when Aristide Pujol, in sole charge of an automobile, went gaily scuttering over the roads of France.

The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.

Now an automobile was a marvellous dragon for Rosemary, and she could never see too many for her pleasure.

An automobile therefore has the same rights and no more than those of a footman.

One who uses another's automobile without consent or knowledge of the owner, may be liable to pay a reasonable hire therefor.

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