adj
Meaning 1
Self-moving; self-propelled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: autokinetic
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
automobile
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, New-Zealand, UK: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
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US: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
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US: /ˌɔː.tə.məˈbil/
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US: /ˌɔː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑː.tə.məˌbil/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑː.tə.məˈbil/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
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CMU ARPABET: AO1 T AH0 M OW0 B IY2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: AO2 T AH0 M OW0 B IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US
Examples
- Meronym: see list of auto parts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: motor vehicle, vehicle
verb
Meaning 3
To travel by automobile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he needs a car to get to work
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: car, auto, machine, motorcar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: motor vehicle, automotive vehicle
Narrower terms: ambulance, beach wagon, station wagon, wagon, estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon, bus, jalopy, heap, cab, hack, taxi, taxicab, compact, compact car, convertible, coupe, cruiser, police cruiser, patrol car, police car, prowl car, squad car, electric, electric automobile, electric car, gas guzzler, hardtop, hatchback, horseless carriage, hot rod, hot-rod, jeep, landrover, limousine, limo, loaner, minicar, minivan, Model T, pace car, racer, race car, racing car, roadster, runabout, two-seater, sedan, saloon, sports car, sport car, sport utility, sport utility vehicle, S.U.V., SUV, Stanley Steamer, stock car, subcompact, subcompact car, touring car, phaeton, tourer, used-car, secondhand car
verb
Meaning 5
travel in an automobile
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h2ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. French auto- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh1- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh1éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin mōbilislbor. French mobile French automobilebor. English automobile From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Across languages
Translations
297 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: auto- — self-moving
- Afrikaans: automobiel — passenger vehicle
- Ahtna: ghalbasi — passenger vehicle
- Ahtna: łoodaxi — passenger vehicle
- Ahtna: natetdaxa — passenger vehicle
- Albanian: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Albanian: vetëlëvizës — passenger vehicle
- Albanian: makinë — passenger vehicle
- Amharic: መኪና (mäkina) — passenger vehicle
- Amharic: አውቶሞቢል (ʾäwtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Jicarilla: bíił — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: سَيَّارَة (sayyāra) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: أُوتُومُوبِيل (ʔotōmōbīl) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: عَرَبِيَّة (ʕarabiyya) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: عَرَبِيَّة (ʕarabiyya) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: أوتوموبيل (ʔotōmōbīl) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: سيارة (sayyāra) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: سَيَّارَة (sayyāra) — passenger vehicle
- Arabic: طوموبيل (ṭumubīl) — passenger vehicle
- Armenian: մեքենա (mekʻena) — passenger vehicle
- Armenian: ավտոմեքենա (avtomekʻena) — passenger vehicle
- Armenian: ավտո (avto) — passenger vehicle
- Armenian: մաշնա (mašna) — passenger vehicle
- Armenian: ավտոմոբիլ (avtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Assamese: গাড়ী (gari) — passenger vehicle
- Asturian: automóvil — passenger vehicle
- Azerbaijani: avtomobil — passenger vehicle
- Azerbaijani: maşın — passenger vehicle
- Bashkir: автомобиль (avtomobilʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Basque: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Belarusian: аўтамабі́ль (awtamabílʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Belarusian: машы́на (mašýna) — passenger vehicle
- Belarusian: аўтамашы́на (awtamašýna) — passenger vehicle
- Belarusian: самахо́д (samaxód) — passenger vehicle
- Belarusian: а́ўта (áwta) — passenger vehicle
- Bengali: গাড়ি (gaṛi) — passenger vehicle
- Bengali: বাহন (bahon) — passenger vehicle
- Bengali: স্বতশ্চলশকট্ (śotoścolśokoṭ) — passenger vehicle
- Bengali: মোটরগাড়ি (mōṭorgaṛi) — passenger vehicle
- Bulgarian: автомоби́л (avtomobíl) — passenger vehicle
- Bulgarian: кола́ (kolá) — passenger vehicle
- Burmese: ကား (ka:) — passenger vehicle
- Burmese: ယဉ် (yany) — passenger vehicle
- Buryat: автомашина (avtomašina) — passenger vehicle
- Carpathian Rusyn: автомобі́л (avtomobíl) — passenger vehicle
- Carpathian Rusyn: авто (avto) — passenger vehicle
- Catalan: automòbil — passenger vehicle
- Cebuano: awto — passenger vehicle
- Chechen: автомобиль (avtomobilj) — passenger vehicle
- Chechen: ворд (vord) — passenger vehicle
- Chechen: машен (mašen) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese Cantonese: 汽車 /汽车 (hei3 ce1) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese: машинэ (mašine) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese: чичә (qičə) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese: 自動車 /自动车 (zh-min-nan) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese: 風車 /风车 (zh-min-nan) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese: 汽車 /汽车 (zh-min-nan) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese Mandarin: 汽車 /汽车 (qìchē) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese Mandarin: 車 /车 (chē) — passenger vehicle
- Chinese Mandarin: 機動車 /机动车 (jīdòngchē) — passenger vehicle
- Chukchi: ковԓёргоор (kovḷjorgoor) — passenger vehicle
- Chuvash: автомобиль (avtomobilʹ) — passenger vehicle
- West Circassian: машинэ (mašinɛ) — passenger vehicle
- Cowlitz: məšín — passenger vehicle
- Crimean Tatar: avtomobil — passenger vehicle
- Czech: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Czech: auto — passenger vehicle
- Danish: bil — passenger vehicle
- Danish: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Dutch: automobiel — passenger vehicle
- Dutch: auto — passenger vehicle
- Dutch: motorrijtuig — passenger vehicle
- Esperanto: aŭtomobilo — passenger vehicle
- Esperanto: aŭto — passenger vehicle
- Estonian: auto — passenger vehicle
- Estonian: automobiil — passenger vehicle
- Estonian: masin — passenger vehicle
- Finnish: auto — passenger vehicle
- Finnish: henkilöauto — passenger vehicle
- Finnish: automobiili — passenger vehicle
- French: voiture — passenger vehicle
- French: auto — passenger vehicle
- French: automobile — passenger vehicle
- French: char — passenger vehicle
- Galician: automóbil — passenger vehicle
- Georgian: ავტომობილი (avṭomobili) — passenger vehicle
- German: Automobil — passenger vehicle
- German: Auto — passenger vehicle
- German: Kraftfahrzeug — passenger vehicle
- German: Personenwagen — passenger vehicle
- German: Kraftwagen — passenger vehicle
- German: Personenkraftwagen — passenger vehicle
- German: PKW — passenger vehicle
- German: Pkw — passenger vehicle
- German: Wagen — passenger vehicle
- Greek: αυτοκίνητο (aftokínito) — passenger vehicle
- Gujarati: મોટરગાડી (moṭargāḍī) — passenger vehicle
- Gujarati: કાર (kār) — passenger vehicle
- Gujarati: ગાડી (gāḍī) — passenger vehicle
- Haitian Creole: otomobil — passenger vehicle
- Hausa: mota — passenger vehicle
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: anbil — passenger vehicle
- Hebrew: מְכוֹנִית (m'khonít) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: मोटरवाहन (moṭarvāhan) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: गाड़ी (gāṛī) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: कार (kār) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: मोटर (moṭar) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: मोटर-गाड़ी (moṭar-gāṛī) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: मोटरगाड़ी (moṭargāṛī) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: वाहन (vāhan) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: मोटरकार (moṭarkār) — passenger vehicle
- Hindi: ऑटोमोबाइल (ŏṭomobāil) — passenger vehicle
- Hungarian: autó — passenger vehicle
- Hungarian: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Hungarian: személygépkocsi — passenger vehicle
- Icelandic: bifreið — passenger vehicle
- Icelandic: bíll — passenger vehicle
- Ido: automobilo — passenger vehicle
- Indonesian: otomobil — passenger vehicle
- Ingrian: automobili — passenger vehicle
- Ingush: автомобиль (avtomobilj) — passenger vehicle
- Interlingua: automobile — passenger vehicle
- Interlingua: auto — passenger vehicle
- Irish: gluaisteán — passenger vehicle
- Irish: carr — passenger vehicle
- Irish: mótar — passenger vehicle
- Italian: automobile — passenger vehicle
- Italian: auto — passenger vehicle
- Italian: macchina — passenger vehicle
- Italian: vettura — passenger vehicle
- Italian: autovettura — passenger vehicle
- Japanese: 自動車 (jidōsha) — passenger vehicle
- Japanese: 乗用車 (jōyōsha) — passenger vehicle
- Japanese: 四輪車 (yonrinsha) — passenger vehicle
- Japanese: 車 (kuruma) — passenger vehicle
- Kannada: ವಾಹನ (vāhana) — passenger vehicle
- Kannada: ಕಾರು (kāru) — passenger vehicle
- Kashubian: aùto — passenger vehicle
- Kazakh: автомобиль (avtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Kazakh: машина (maşina) — passenger vehicle
- Kazakh: автокөлік (avtokölık) — passenger vehicle
- Kazakh: автомашина (avtomaşina) — passenger vehicle
- Khmer: ឡាន (laan) — passenger vehicle
- Khmer: រថ (rŭət) — passenger vehicle
- Korean: 자동차 (jadongcha) — passenger vehicle
- Korean: 차 (cha) — passenger vehicle
- Korean: 사륜차 (saryuncha) — passenger vehicle
- Central Kurdish: ئوتوموبیل (utumubîl) — passenger vehicle
- Central Kurdish: ترومبێل (trumbêl) — passenger vehicle
- Central Kurdish: سەیارە (seyare) — passenger vehicle
- Northern Kurdish: otomobîl — passenger vehicle
- Northern Kurdish: erebe — passenger vehicle
- Northern Kurdish: maşîn — passenger vehicle
- Kyrgyz: автомобиль (avtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Kyrgyz: машина (maşina) — passenger vehicle
- Kyrgyz: автомашина (avtomaşina) — passenger vehicle
- Lao: ລົດໃຫຍ່ — passenger vehicle
- Lao: ລົດ (lot) — passenger vehicle
- Lao: ໂອໂຕ (ʼō tō) — passenger vehicle
- Latin: autocinetum — passenger vehicle
- Latin: autocurrus — passenger vehicle
- Latin: autovehiculum — passenger vehicle
- Latin: autoraeda — passenger vehicle
- Latvian: automobilis — passenger vehicle
- Latvian: automašīna — passenger vehicle
- Latvian: spēkrats — passenger vehicle
- Lezgi: автомобиль (avtomobil’) — passenger vehicle
- Lithuanian: automobilis — passenger vehicle
- Lithuanian: mašina — passenger vehicle
- Macedonian: автомоби́л (avtomobíl) — passenger vehicle
- Macedonian: кола (kola) — passenger vehicle
- Malay: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Malay: kereta — passenger vehicle
- Malayalam: കാർ (kāṟ) — passenger vehicle
- Maltese: karozza — passenger vehicle
- Maltese: vettura — passenger vehicle
- Māori: motokā — passenger vehicle
- Marathi: मोटार (moṭār) — passenger vehicle
- Marathi: मोटारवाहन (moṭārvāhan) — passenger vehicle
- Mirandese: altemoble — passenger vehicle
- Mirandese: carro — passenger vehicle
- Mohawk: kà꞉sere — passenger vehicle
- Mongolian: автомашин (avtomašin) — passenger vehicle
- Mongolian: автомобиль (avtomobilʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Mongolian: машин (mašin) — passenger vehicle
- Nahuatl: tepozmalacatl — passenger vehicle
- Nahuatl: teposkalnejnenki — passenger vehicle
- Navajo: chidí — passenger vehicle
- Nepali: मोटरगाडी (moṭaragāḍī) — passenger vehicle
- Norwegian Bokmål: bil — passenger vehicle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bil — passenger vehicle
- Occitan: automobila — passenger vehicle
- Occitan: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Odia: କାର୍ (kār) — passenger vehicle
- Ojibwe: odaabaan — passenger vehicle
- Ossetian: хӕдтулгӕ (xædtulgæ) — passenger vehicle
- Pashto: تېزرفتار (tezraftār) — passenger vehicle
- Pashto: موټر (moṭar) — passenger vehicle
- Pashto: خودرو — passenger vehicle
- Dari: موتَر (mōtar) — passenger vehicle
- Dari: خُودْرَو (xūdraw) — passenger vehicle
- Dari: خُودْرو (xūdrō) — passenger vehicle
- Iranian Persian: خودْرُو (xodrow) — passenger vehicle
- Iranian Persian: ماشین (mâšin) — passenger vehicle
- Iranian Persian: اُتومُبیل (otomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Plautdietsch: Koa — passenger vehicle
- Plautdietsch: Auto (nds) — passenger vehicle
- Polish: samochód — passenger vehicle
- Polish: auto — passenger vehicle
- Polish: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Polish: fura — passenger vehicle
- Portuguese: automóvel — passenger vehicle
- Portuguese: carro — passenger vehicle
- Portuguese: veículo — passenger vehicle
- Portuguese: auto — passenger vehicle
- Punjabi: ਕਾਰ (kār) — passenger vehicle
- Romanian: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Romanian: mașină — passenger vehicle
- Russian: автомоби́ль (avtomobílʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Russian: автомаши́на (avtomašína) — passenger vehicle
- Russian: маши́на (mašína) — passenger vehicle
- Russian: авто́ (avtó) — passenger vehicle
- Russian: та́чка (táčka) — passenger vehicle
- Russian: мото́р (motór) — passenger vehicle
- Scots: motorcaur — passenger vehicle
- Serbo-Croatian: аутомо̀бӣл — passenger vehicle
- Serbo-Croatian: automòbīl — passenger vehicle
- Sinhalese: මෝටර් රථ (mōṭar ratha) — passenger vehicle
- Slovak: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Slovak: auto — passenger vehicle
- Slovene: automobil — passenger vehicle
- Slovene: avto — passenger vehicle
- Somali: baabuur — passenger vehicle
- Lower Sorbian: awto — passenger vehicle
- Upper Sorbian: awto — passenger vehicle
- Spanish: automóvil — passenger vehicle
- Spanish: carro — passenger vehicle
- Spanish: coche — passenger vehicle
- Spanish: auto — passenger vehicle
- Swahili: motakari bus — passenger vehicle
- Swahili: motokari bus — passenger vehicle
- Swahili: motokaa — passenger vehicle
- Swahili: gari — passenger vehicle
- Swedish: bil — passenger vehicle
- Tagalog: awtomobil — passenger vehicle
- Tagalog: isugang batlag — passenger vehicle
- Tagalog: batlag — passenger vehicle
- Tagalog: kotse — passenger vehicle
- Tagalog: awto — passenger vehicle
- Tajik: автомобил (avtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Tajik: мошин (mošin) — passenger vehicle
- Tajik: автомошин (avtomošin) — passenger vehicle
- Tajik: худрав (xudrav) — passenger vehicle
- Tamil: மோட்டார் (mōṭṭār) — passenger vehicle
- Tamil: வண்டி (vaṇṭi) — passenger vehicle
- Tatar: автомобиль (avtomobilʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Tatar: арба (arba) — passenger vehicle
- Telugu: మోటారు (mōṭāru) — passenger vehicle
- Telugu: కారు (kāru) — passenger vehicle
- Telugu: బండి (baṇḍi) — passenger vehicle
- Thai: รถยนต์ (rót-yon) — passenger vehicle
- Thai: รถ (rót) — passenger vehicle
- Tibetan: ཆིས་ཁྲེའེ (chis khre'e) — passenger vehicle
- Tigrinya: ኣውቶሞቢል (ʾawtomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Tigrinya: መኪና (mäkina) — passenger vehicle
- Tonkawa: ˀa·cosa·nan — passenger vehicle
- Turkish: otomobil — passenger vehicle
- Turkish: araba — passenger vehicle
- Turkmen: maşyn — passenger vehicle
- Turkmen: awtomobil — passenger vehicle
- Turkmen: awtomaşyn — passenger vehicle
- Tuvan: автомобиль (avtomobilʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Ukrainian: автомобі́ль (avtomobílʹ) — passenger vehicle
- Ukrainian: маши́на (mašýna) — passenger vehicle
- Ukrainian: автомаши́на (avtomašýna) — passenger vehicle
- Ukrainian: авто́ (avtó) — passenger vehicle
- Unami: hatëmopil — passenger vehicle
- Unami: amànkshkinkw — passenger vehicle
- Urdu: گاڑی (gāṛī) — passenger vehicle
- Urdu: کار (kār) — passenger vehicle
- Urdu: آٹوموبِیل (āṭomobīl) — passenger vehicle
- Uyghur: ئاپتوموبىل (aptomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Uyghur: ماشىنا (mashina) — passenger vehicle
- Uzbek: avtomobil — passenger vehicle
- Uzbek: avtomashina — passenger vehicle
- Uzbek: mashina — passenger vehicle
- Vietnamese: xe hơi — passenger vehicle
- Vietnamese: ô tô — passenger vehicle
- Vietnamese: xe — passenger vehicle
- Volapük: motoravab — passenger vehicle
- Volapük: tood — passenger vehicle
- Yakut: массыына (massïïna) — passenger vehicle
- Yiddish: אויטאָמאָביל (oytomobil) — passenger vehicle
- Yiddish: אויטאָ (oyto) — passenger vehicle
- Yiddish: מאַשין (mashin) — passenger vehicle
- Zhuang: giceh — passenger vehicle
- Finnish: autoilla — to travel by automobile
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