automobile horn

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   a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

   Synonymscar hornmotor hornhornhooter

   Broaderalarm

   Part ofcar

   Partshorn button

Questions about automobile horn

What does automobile horn mean?

automobile horn means "a device on an automobile for making a warning noise".

What is another word for automobile horn?

Close synonyms include car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter. 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 horn a common word?

automobile horn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.