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# motorcar

«motorcar» in Mova's school dictionary: **A car, a road vehicle with an engine that carries a few…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a motorcar, motorcars — old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

(old-fashioned, formal) A car, a road vehicle with an engine that carries a few people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Seen in old books and history lessons about the first cars; today people just say "car". Phrases: early motorcars, the first motorcar.

### examples

- The first motorcars were noisy and slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x1)
- In the old story, the family rode in a shiny motorcar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x2)
- Horses were scared of the early motorcars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x3)
- The museum has a motorcar with big wooden wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x4)
- Grandpa jokes that his car is a "motorcar". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x5)
- Before the motorcar, people travelled by horse and cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/#x6)

### note

Old-fashioned; also written "motor car". Today: car (UK, US), automobile (US formal). Countable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «motorcar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motorcar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.