PULLMAN CAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pullman car mean? 

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

1. luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULLMAN CAR (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 car" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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)