automobile

1. 1.

   travel in an automobile

   Broadertravel

   driving

Other forms of automobile

plural

automobiles·

past tense

automobiled·

present participle

automobiling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about automobile

What does automobile mean?

automobile means "a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in automobile?

automobile has 4 syllables: auto-mo-bi-le. The stress falls on "auto". In IPA it is /ˈɔtəmoʊˌbil/.

What is another word for automobile?

Close synonyms include car, auto, machine, motorcar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is automobile a common word?

automobile is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with automobile?

2 words rhyme with automobile. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.