1. A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
   "he needs a car to get to work";
   - auto [informal], automobile [N. Amer], motorcar, wheel [informal], whip [US, informal], autocar [archaic], motor [Brit, informal]
    
2. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railway
   "three cars had jumped the rails"; "Passengers boarded the luxurious railway car for their cross-country journey"; "three railway cars had jumped the rails";
   - railcar, railway car [Brit, Cdn], railroad car [N. Amer], railway carriage [Brit, Cdn], bogie [Asia]
    
3. A conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
   "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain";
   - cable car
    
4. [N. Amer] The passenger compartment of an elevator
   "the car was on the top floor";
   - elevator car [N. Amer]
    
5. The compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
   "The passengers boarded the car of the zeppelin";
   - gondola

Derived forms: cars

Type of: automotive vehicle, compartment, motor vehicle, wheeled vehicle

Part of: airship, cable railway, dashcam, dirigible [N. Amer], elevator [N. Amer, Austral, NZ], funicular, funicular railway, lift [Brit], railroad train [N. Amer], railway train [Brit, Cdn], train

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