hansom cab

1. 1.

   a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers

   Synonymshansom

   Broadercarriage

Questions about hansom cab

What does hansom cab mean?

hansom cab means "a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers".

What is another word for hansom cab?

Close synonyms include hansom. 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 hansom cab a common word?

hansom cab 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.