passenger car

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   a railcar where passengers ride

   Synonymscoachcarriage

   Broadercar

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   Part ofpassenger train

Questions about passenger car

What does passenger car mean?

passenger car means "a railcar where passengers ride".

What is another word for passenger car?

Close synonyms include coach, carriage. 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 passenger car a common word?

passenger car 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.