Limousine
/ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/ name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
- 2 large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur wordnet
- 3 An automobile with such a body.
- 4 A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
"It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side."
- 5 An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
Proper Noun
- 1 Alternative form of Limousin (“former region in France”). alt-of, alternative
Example
More examples"Car? Ah, if you mean that limousine, - I chartered it."
Etymology
Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.