sedan

Pronunciation: /səˈdæn/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors
  2. noun a closed litter for one passenger

Etymology

The sense of "windowed chair" was first used by Sir Sanders Duncombe in 1634, possibly from a southern Italian dialect of Italian sede (“seat”), from Latin sedes. The "motorcar" sense was first recorded in 1912 in North America.

In classic literature

Synonyms

saloon

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
car
Narrower (hyponyms)
brougham

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