▪ a railroad vehicle for passengers or freight: "the first-class cars"Similarcarriagecoachsaloonbogie
▪ the passenger compartment of an elevator, cableway, airship, or balloon: "he was in the elevator when the car stuck"
▪ a chariot.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘wheeled vehicle’): from Old Northern French carre, based on Latin carrum, carrus, of Celtic origin.
