# automobile

Pronunciation: say "AW-tuh-muh-beel" US /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, UK/AUS /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/

## Noun

1. A motor vehicle that moves on the ground under its own stored power, built to carry a driver, a few passengers, and a small amount of cargo. *(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US)*
   - Simple: A road vehicle with its own engine, made to carry a driver and a few passengers.
   - _Early automobiles were expensive and difficult to start by hand._
   - _She parked the automobile outside the office and hurried in._

## Adjective

2. Moving under its own power rather than being pushed, pulled, or driven along by something else.
   - Simple: Able to move by itself, without being pushed or pulled.
   - _The factory produced an automobile torpedo capable of driving itself toward a target._
   - _Nineteenth-century inventors competed to create truly automobile vehicles._

## Verb

3. To travel somewhere by car. *(dated)*
   - Simple: To travel from place to place by car.
   - _On Sundays the family would automobile out to the lake._
   - _They automobiled across three states that summer._

## Origin

From French automobile, formed from the Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, "self") and French mobile ("moving"), which comes from Latin mōbilis ("movable"). So it means "self-moving."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/automobile (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).