automobile trunk

1. 1.

   compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools

   “he put his golf bag in the trunk”

   Synonymsluggage compartmenttrunkboot

   Broadercompartment

   Part ofcar

   United Kingdom

Questions about automobile trunk

What does automobile trunk mean?

automobile trunk means "compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools".

What is another word for automobile trunk?

Close synonyms include luggage compartment, trunk, boot. 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 trunk a common word?

automobile trunk 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.