car – English noun declension

English noun forms of car

Noun: car
Singularcar
Pluralcars

Sample Sentences

  • in a car
  • He drove his car to the theatre.
  • He was thinking about buying a brand new car.
  • I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk. [2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:]
  • If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] . [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:]
  • The race around the Interlagos circuit in São Paolo effectively became a 12-lap dash to the flag when Valtteri Bottas triggered the safety car after he pulled his Mercedes over with engine trouble. [2019 November 17, Sarah Holt, “Verstappen wins Brazilian GP as Ferraris collide AND Gasly and Sainz claim first F1 podiums”, in CNN:]
  • Then, of course, there are the cars themselves. The most valuable classic car ever sold at auction was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for more than $48 million in 2018. Of the top ten most valuable cars ever sold at auction, six are Ferraris. [2020 September 19, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “I hate to say it, but Ferrari’s new convertible is worth every penny”, in CNN:]
  • It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
  • Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
  • As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
  • With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre. [1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
  • He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
  • Like holy Phoebus’ car. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:]
  • The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe. [1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:]
  • In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 87:]
  • The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
  • The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.
  • From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
  • We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.
  • This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn. [1907, Texas Agricultural, Mechanical College System, Bulletin, volumes 93-117, page 5:]
  • Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.
  • The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
  • Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […] [1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:]
  • "What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us." [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
  • On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck. [1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim, →ISBN, page 201:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse. See: Middle English Nouns 'carre', Middle English Nouns 'carre', Latin Nouns 'carrus'.

Verbs referencing "car"

French Nouns car, Finnish Nouns kaara, Russian Nouns кар, German Nouns Karre, Ukrainian Nouns ґара.