parlour car

Questions about parlour car

What is another word for parlour car?

It depends which parlour car you mean. In the sense “a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs”, the synonyms are parlor car, drawing-room car, palace car, chair car. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of parlour car?

WordNet records no antonym for parlour car. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for parlour car come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of parlour car

• Full entry for parlour carAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for parlour carWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.