car
car (kär)n. 1. An automobile. 2. A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car. 3. A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance: an elevator car. 4. The part of a balloon or airship that carries people and cargo. 5. Archaic. A chariot, carriage, or cart. [Middle English carre, cart, from Old North French, from Latin carra, pl. of carrus, carrum, a Gallic type of wagon. See kers- in Indo-European Roots.]
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