motor car

NOUN

auto

Synonyms

STRONGEST

car passenger car vehicle

STRONG

wheels

NOUN

automobile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

auto bus convertible limousine passenger car pickup truck sports car station wagon taxi transportation truck van

STRONG

bug buggy compact crate four-wheeler go-cart hardtop hatchback heap jalopy junker lemon ride sedan subcompact tub wheels wreck

WEAK

bucket of bolts clunker gas guzzler oil burner

Example Sentences

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The streetcar and the motor car changed that.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

"It's a beautiful, very traditional motor car and I wouldn't consider selling it."

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2019

"It's like driving a motor car and looking in the rear-view mirror," Winter says.

From National Geographic • Mar. 5, 2018

This crowdfunded destruction of the hated motor car made news around the world.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2017

Dad said, Up the road to McCourts of Moneyglass, and the priest took us in his motor car.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt