LIMOUSINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limousine mean? 

• LIMOUSINE (noun)
  The noun LIMOUSINE has 1 sense:

1. large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur

  Familiarity information: LIMOUSINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMOUSINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

limo; limousine

Hypernyms ("limousine" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limousine"):

berlin (a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats)

 Context examples 

The secretary lay back in the cushions of the luxurious limousine, with his thoughts so full of the impending European tragedy that he hardly observed that as his car swung round the village street it nearly passed over a little Ford coming in the opposite direction.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)