Meaning

1 senses

  1. (dated)To travel by automobile.

    travel in an automobile

Examples

107 sentences

  1. Tom was killed in an automobile accident.

    Том загинув у автомобільній аварії. — deniko

    ruТом погиб в автомобильной аварии. — marafon

    deTom ist bei einem Autounfall tödlich verunglückt. — wolfgangth

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  2. The automobile is a wonderful invention.

    ruАвтомобиль — чудесное изобретение. — odexed

    deDas Auto ist eine wunderbare Erfindung. — Shoyren

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  3. He works in the automobile industry.

    deEr arbeitet in der Automobilindustrie. — al_ex_an_der

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  4. Tom died in an automobile accident.

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  5. The automobile has changed our lives.

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Origin

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.

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Forms

automobiles, automobiling, automobiled, automobiled
Base formautomobile · to automobile
3rd person singularautomobiles
Present participleautomobiling
Past simpleautomobiled
Past participleautomobiled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyautomobile
he, she, itautomobiles

Past simpleLesson

all personsautomobiled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave automobiled
he, she, ithas automobiled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill automobile

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • an automobile accident
  • an an automobile
  • automobile accident

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
automaticA2automaticallyA2automationautomatonautomotiveautonomousC2autonomy

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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