automobile

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mobilis (“movable”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.tə.mə.biːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.tə.moʊ.ˌbil/

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mo‧bile

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. (US, Canada) A type of 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. A car or motorcar.
   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

     Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

• The word automobile usually implies a car with seating for perhaps four or five passengers.
• A vehicle with more than six or seven seats is usually described as a limousine, minivan, van, SUV, bus, etc.

• (passenger vehicle): auto, car, (British) motor, (British) motorcar
• See also Thesaurus:automobile

• truck, van, bus, SUV, minivan, station wagon, sedan, coupe, convertible, sports car, racecar; wagon, cart, trailer, tractor; airplane, boat, ship

• automatic
• automotive

• → Alabama: mobìlika

automobile (third-person singular simple present automobiles, present participle automobiling, simple past and past participle automobiled)

1. (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.

automobile (not comparable)

1. Self-moving; self-propelled.
   • Nikola Tesla

     As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.

auto- +‎ mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.mɔ.bil/

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• Homophone: automobiles
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mo‧bile

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. automotive

automobile f (plural automobiles)

1. automobile

   L’automobile est un moyen de déplacement pratique à la campagne, mais cher et polluant.

   The automobile is a practical means of travel in the countryside, but it's expensive and polluting.

• (informal) auto
• (France, informal) bagnole
• (France, informal) caisse
• (Quebec, Louisiana) char
• (France, informal) tire
• voiture

• automobilisable
• automobilisme
• automobiliste

• → Dutch: automobiel
• → English: automobile
• → German: Automobil
• → Russian: автомоби́ль (avtomobílʹ)
  • → Armenian: ավտոմոբիլ (avtomobil)
  • → Azerbaijani: avtomobil
  • → Georgian: ავტომობილი (avṭomobili)
  • → Uyghur: ئاپتوموبىل‎ (aptomobil)

• “automobile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

auto- +‎ mobile

• IPA^(key): /au.to.ˈmɔ.bi.le/, [au̯.t̪o.ˈmɔː.bi.le]

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mò‧bi‧le
• Rhymes: -ɔbile

automobile f (plural automobili)

1. automobile

• (automobile): auto, macchina, vettura