How do you use the word "taxi" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "taxi": You needn't have taken a taxi. I went to the airport by taxi.

Taxi Meaning

/ˈtæksi/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

nounAn aircraft used for practicing ground manoeuvres.

Sentence Examples

You needn't have taken a taxi.

I went to the airport by taxi.

We took a taxi to the airport.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

taxicab hack

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

We flagged down a ____ outside the hotel to go to the restaurant.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We decided to take a ____ to the airport because we had too many heavy suitcases to carry on the bus today.

Word Origin & History

Shortened from taximeter cab, taximeter (“automatic meter that records distance and fare”) from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (whence also English taxameter), coined from Medieval Latin taxa (“tax, charge”). More at tax, task. The aviation sense originally derived from a slang term for training aircraft used for practicing ground operations, which were said to drive around the airfield like a taxicab, and subsequently applied to all aircraft ground movements.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant."" — 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12:

"Capt. Dawes and Bellairs were out with the Deperdussin taxi, and also with the brevet machine, rolling." — 1912, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer:

"... some similar untidy pile of what had been a school biplane is recorded to have acted the part of red rag to the bull of a "taxi" monoplane , which despite its driver's efforts insisted on charging and trampling on the battered fragments." — 1914, Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News:

"Mr. E. B. Bauman (new pupil) joined school and had first lesson on No. 2 taxi." — 1913, The Aeroplane:

"[H]e had taxied to the waterfront bent upon a business in which nostalgia had no part[.]" — 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

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