Limousine Meaning
/ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
nounAn automobile with such a body.
Sentence Examples
Car? Ah, if you mean that limousine, - I chartered it.
There was a limousine waiting for Tom outside the hotel.
CEFR Practice Quiz
For the red carpet event, the celebrity arrived in a long black ____ with tinted windows.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The famous rock star arrived at the awards ceremony in a long and shiny black ____ with tinted windows.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For the red carpet event, the celebrity arrived in a long black ____ with tinted windows.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The famous rock star arrived at the awards ceremony in a long and shiny black ____ with tinted windows.