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sleeping car
noun
- a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
sleeping car
noun
- a railway car fitted with compartments containing bunks for people to sleep in
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sleeping car1
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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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