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View synonyms for sleeping car

sleeping car

noun

  1. a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.


sleeping car

noun

  1. a railway car fitted with compartments containing bunks for people to sleep in
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleeping car1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences

Clearly this is no way to run a railroad, and Amtrak has announced a plan that involves doing away with sleeping cars after already changing dining cars to cafe cars.

The ladies, the baby and the maid had a compartment of the sleeping car to themselves and journeyed comfortably enough.

No matter how far ahead I planned my trips and tried to make reservations I could never get a lower berth in a sleeping-car.

It can be hooked on the head, foot or side rail of the bed or used, as shown, in a sleeping car.

How could you suppose a serpent could get on board a sleeping-car, of all places in the world!

It was his custom, he said, to knock down the elevator boys and sleeping-car porters.

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