Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various large passenger vehicles, especially a luxurious automobile usually driven by a chauffeur and sometimes having a partition separating the passenger compartment from the driver's seat.
  • noun A van or small bus used to carry passengers on a regular route, as between an airport and a downtown area.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cloak of goats' hair or coarse wool worn by peasants and wagon-drivers.
  • noun A type of automobile body, in which the rear seats are inclosed by fixed sides, back, and top.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an elongated, luxurious automobile, designed to be driven by a chauffeur and often having a glass partition between the driver's seat and the passengers' compartment behind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front
  • noun An automobile with such a body.
  • noun A luxury sedan/saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, long shepherd's mantle, limousine (originally an automobile in which only the rear passengers were fully enclosed under a roof), from feminine of limousin, of Limousin (the automobile perhaps being so called because the roof projected over the driver like the hood of a mantle, or because it was developed by Charles Jeantaud (1843–1906), native of Limousin ).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French limousine.

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