glove compartment

1. 1.

   compartment on the dashboard of a car

   Broadercompartment

   Part ofcar

Questions about glove compartment

What does glove compartment mean?

glove compartment means "compartment on the dashboard of a car".

Is glove compartment a common word?

glove compartment 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.