motorcar
Americannoun
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a more formal word for car
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a self-propelled electric railway car
Etymology
Origin of motorcar
Example Sentences
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“I shouted ‘Motorcar, motorcar, motorcar,’ which was about the only English I remembered from high school, hoping that someone would bring an automobile to drive me to headquarters.”
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023
The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town's first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020
In post-war Britain, more disposable income, rising standards of living, and the suburban housing boom solidified the pram’s place in society: just as father needed his motorcar, mother needed her pram.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018
But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop.
From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017
He informed me that his older brother, my first and oldest son, Madiba Thembekile, whom we called Thembi, had been killed in a motorcar accident in the Transkei.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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