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Noun
/ˌôtəmōˈbēl/,
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automobiles, plural;
  1. A road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and able to carry a small number of people


  1. car: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
  2. travel in an automobile
  3. An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. ...
  4. Automobile magazine is an automobile magazine in the United States and is owned by Source Interlink. It was founded by a group of former employees of Car and Driver magazine, led by that publications’s former editor, David E. Davis, and originally published by News Corporation. ...
  5. A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load; To travel by automobile
  6. Automobiles for hire at; Austin Automobile Co., 102 S. Division St.; Beelby Supply Co. 39-45 Fountain St.; C.J. Bronson, 42-50 Kent St., Buick Motor Co., N. Ottawa St.; Continental Automobile Co., 93-99 Jefferson Ave.; W.S. Farrant, 87-89-91 N. Division St.; Central Auto Co., 160-162 N. ...
  7. (Automobility) The combination of ideas, assumptions, institutions and technologies that have driven Americans (in cars) since the early 20^th century.  See Car culture.
  8. A land motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer designed for travel on public roads, not including 'mobile equipment'
  9. A privately owned and/or operated licensed motorized vehicle including cars, jeeps and station wagons. Leased and rented cars are included if they are privately operated and not used for picking up passengers in return for fare. (FHWA3)
  10. Includes standard passenger car, 2-seater car and station wagons; excludes passenger vans, cargo vans, motor homes, pickup trucks, and sport-utility or similar vehicles. See Vehicle.
  11. Includes, in addition to passenger cars, other vehicles used to provide necessary transportation.
  12. four-wheeled passenger motor vehicle having a seating capacity for not more than 10 people including police cars and racing cars but not including ambulances or hearses.
  13. Related terms: car, tire, automotive, waste oil, grease, oil, petroleum, petroleum hydrocarbons, TPH, total petroleum hydrocarbons, diesel, unleaded, gasoline, fuel, solvents, VOCs, volatile organic compounds, carbon dichloride, PERC, Perchloroethylene, tetrachloroethene, Tetrachloroethylene, ...
  14. "Automobile" is a vehicle run by an engine.
  15. The great modern symbol of power, status, vitality, sexuality. Life itself. Automobile dreams are very common and have many meanings in dream analysis. It depends on factors like -- who is driving? Is it a pleasant journey or a treacherous one? An old clunker or a luxurious new car? ...
  16. Coverage for vehicles and trailers used personally or in a farm/business operation.
  17. motor car; in one instance only, as "roue d'automobile".
  18. A vehicle with typically four tires/tracks that transports one or more people utilizing a motor over a solid surface (Asphalt, Dirt, Snow, etc.).
  19. n. A transportation device hailed as the solution to the problem of providing transit without creating the pollution generated by a horse.
  20. n.: A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians.
  21. Covers your legal liability to others for bodily injury or property damage, medical payments, uninsured motorists, and physical damage for autos, trailers or semi-trailers owned, leased, rented or hired by you.
  22. To dream that you are driving an automobile foretells prosperity and financial gain. To dream that you are driving a horse is the sign of early marriage.
  23. n. a vehicle with wheels used to carry people; a car
  24. To dream that you ride in an automobile, denotes that you will be restless under pleasant conditions, and will make a change in your affairs. There is grave danger of impolitic conduct intimated through a dream of this nature. ...
  25. magazine named the Lexus ES one of its Top Ten All-Stars in 1992.