Hyundai
//ˈh(j)ʌn.deɪ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.
"She could just imagine him wilting as Janice made insinuations about his boy-executive clothes, his Hyundai, the section of town he lived in, the school he had gone to."
Example
More examples"My parents bought my brother and me a brand-new yellow Hyundai Pony for transportation to our university. It was then the early days of Korean car manufacturing."
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 현대(現代) (hyeondae, “modern times”). The Hyundai Motor Group takes its name from the conglomerate with which it was historically affiliated, the Hyundai Group.
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