A road vehicle with an engine, four wheels, and seats for a small number of people.
The word goes back to Latin 'carrus' or 'carrum', meaning a two-wheeled wagon, which passed through Old French and Middle English. It originally meant any wheeled vehicle before narrowing to motor vehicles.
Your modern car is named after ancient carts and wagons; it’s basically a high-tech 'chariot'. Even 'carriage' and 'cargo' are cousins, showing how deeply wheels and carrying are wired into our language.
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