motor vehicle

Questions about motor vehicle

What does motor vehicle mean?

motor vehicle means "a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails".

What is another word for motor vehicle?

Close synonyms include automotive vehicle. 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 motor vehicle a common word?

motor vehicle 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.