motorcar

«motorcar» in Mova's school dictionary: A car, a road vehicle with an engine that carries a few… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a motorcar, motorcars — old-fashioned)

meaning for a pupil

(old-fashioned, formal) A car, a road vehicle with an engine that carries a few people. tree →

sense in the lessons

Seen in old books and history lessons about the first cars; today people just say "car". Phrases: early motorcars, the first motorcar.

examples

• The first motorcars were noisy and slow. tree →
• In the old story, the family rode in a shiny motorcar. tree →
• Horses were scared of the early motorcars. tree →
• The museum has a motorcar with big wooden wheels. tree →
• Grandpa jokes that his car is a "motorcar". tree →
• Before the motorcar, people travelled by horse and cart. tree →

note

Old-fashioned; also written "motor car". Today: car (UK, US), automobile (US formal). Countable.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «motorcar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.