Toyota
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A car of the brand Toyota
- 1 A surname from Japanese. countable
- 2 A city near Nagoya in Japan, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters. countable, uncountable
- 3 The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars. countable, uncountable
"So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds."
- 4 A brand of car manufactured by Toyota. countable, uncountable
"It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers."
Example
More examples"Toyota Corporation announced that it would cut 1,000 positions this year."
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.
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