PULLMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pullman mean? 

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

1. luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULLMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Pullman; Pullman car

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

carriage; coach; passenger car (a railcar where passengers ride)

 Context examples 

My God! Martin thought; you can travel in a Pullman while I starve for the paltry five dollars you owe me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London, and I fancy that the journey was a short one to Colonel Ross as well as to myself, as we listened to our companion’s narrative of the events which had occurred at the Dartmoor training-stables upon the Monday night, and the means by which he had unravelled them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Half as many is too much; get rid of them. Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,—who’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you think you’re travelling on a Pullman?”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)