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say it: kahr
car is a noun meaning "a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine". It is pronounced /ˈkɑɹ/ — kahr. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
“he needs a car to get to work”
a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
“three cars had jumped the rails”
the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
where passengers ride up and down
“the car was on the top floor”
a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
“they took a cable car to the top of the mountain”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for car come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.