a passenger vehicle, usually four-wheeled, propelled by an engine or motor that is part of it, esp. an internal-combustion engine, and meant for traveling onstreets or roads; motorcar
Word origin
Fr: see auto- & mobile
automobile in Automotive Engineering
(ɔtəməbil)
Word forms: (regular plural) automobiles
noun
(Automotive engineering: Vehicle types)
An automobile is a private passenger car.
COLLOCATIONS: ~ industry~ maker~ manufacturer
The company specializes in affordable automobiles with low emissions.
The ruling requires the fuel companies to supply enough ultra-clean fuels to meetthe needs of the new cleaner automobiles.
The factory manufactures control system components for the automobile industry.
Examples of 'automobile' in a sentence
automobile
Snow affects more than just trains and automobiles.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Little has been done by the average citizen to reduce automobile accidents.
McKenzie, James F. & Pinger, Robert R. An Introduction to Community Health (1995)
But few technical service people had within memory set foot in the engineering department or the plant of an automobile company.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGING FOR RESULTS (1986)
One wonders how many of the thousands of "unexplained" automobile accidents are helped along by acute reactions to pollution.
Randolph, Theron G. & Moss, Ralph W. (contributor) An Alternative Approach to Allergies (1990)
When you have debt, one automobile accident can mean financial ruin.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Thus, the price elasticity of the demand by automobile manufacturers for the input plastic will also be high.
Miller, Roger LeRoy & Fishe, Raymond P. H. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995)
Worse still, the automobile assembly line makes each man a threat rather than a resource to his fellow worker.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Blue Planes, trains or automobiles?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Planes, trains and automobiles have all been hit by incompetent management on mega salaries failing to clear runways, tracks and roads.
The Sun (2010)
With automobile insurance, for example, an insurance company accepts part of the risk that you will be involved in a car accident.
Miller, Roger LeRoy & Fishe, Raymond P. H. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995)
In other languages
automobile
British English: automobile NOUN
An automobile is a car.
American English: automobile
Brazilian Portuguese: automóvel
Chinese: 汽车
European Spanish: automóvil
French: automobile
German: Automobil
Italian: automobile
Japanese: 自動車
Korean: 자동차
European Portuguese: automóvel
Latin American Spanish: automóvil
Chinese translation of 'automobile'
automobile
(ˈɔːtəməbiːl) (US)
n(c)
汽车(車) (qìchē) (辆(輛), liàng)
(noun)
Definition
a motorcar
(US)
He seems to have bought up half America's automobile production.
Synonyms
car
They arrived by car.
machine
motor
She got in and started the motor.
vehicle
a vehicle which was somewhere between a tractor and a truck
wheels (informal)
auto (US)
the auto industry
jalopy (informal)
motorcar
Additional synonyms
in the sense of auto
the auto industry
Synonyms
car,
machine,
motor,
vehicle,
wheels (informal),
automobile,
jalopy (informal),
motorcar
in the sense of motor
Definition
a machine that converts energy, esp. electrical energy, into mechanical energy
She got in and started the motor.
Synonyms
engine,
machine,
mechanism
in the sense of vehicle
Definition
a machine such as a bus or car for transporting people or goods
a vehicle which was somewhere between a tractor and a truck