automobile

Pluralautomobiles

Formsautomobiles, automobiling, automobiled

1. 1
   nounAustraliaCanadaNew ZealandPhilippinesUScountable

   A road vehicle with its own engine, made to carry a driver and a few passengers.

   We bought a new automobile last spring.

   The automobile rolled slowly out of the garage.

   Similarcar, auto, motorcar

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2. 2
   adjective

   Able to move by itself, without being pushed or pulled.

   They built an automobile carriage that moved without horses.

   Visitors crowded around the inventor's little automobile machine as it rolled across the stage.

   Similarself-propelled

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3. 3
   verbdatedintransitive

   To travel from place to place by car.

   Like saying you bike somewhere, but you go by car instead.

   They automobiled to the coast for the weekend.

   We love to automobile through the countryside on warm days.

   Similardrive, motor

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