Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A closed automobile having two or four doors and a front and rear seat.
- noun A portable enclosed chair for one person, having poles in the front and rear and carried by two other people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A covered chair serving as a vehicle for carrying one person who sits within it, the inclosure being therefore of much greater height than width: it is borne on two poles, which pass through rings secured to the sides, and usually by two bearers.
- noun A hand-barrow with a deep basket-like bottom made of barrel-hoops, used to carry fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also
sedan chair .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An enclosed
windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair. - noun US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand A
motorcar designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors
- noun a closed litter for one passenger
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Ford's mid-size, front-wheel-drive Fusion sedan is now the top-ranked model in Consumer Reports '"family cars" segment — better than the Toyota Camry, the Honda Accord, the Nissan Altima and the Hyundai Sonata.
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An unusual 1940 Nash sedan is part of the collection in Mexico City's Automobile Museum.
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Production of the sedan is not expected to begin until 2012, but Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn says new equipment needed to make electric cars is being brought in.
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The S65 AMG, the performance version of the S-Class sedan, is $198,950.
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Ford Fusion mpg beats rivals: Ford's just-out 2010 Fusion gas-electric hybrid sedan is rated at 41 miles per gallon in the city, 8 mpg more than Toyota's rival Camry hybrid, and 36 on the highway, 2 mpg more than Camry.
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Production of the sedan is not expected to begin until 2012, but Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn says new equipment needed to make electric cars is being brought in.
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Subaru The WRX STI is a high-performance version of the Subaru Impreza, available in sedan or five-door hatchback.
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Next year, a new family-size sedan is scheduled to roll off the assembly lines at a newly built $1 billion plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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The 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Holiday sedan from the “Evil Dead” trilogy (1981/87/92)
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The Toyota SAI Hybrid sedan is based on the Lexus HS250h, a much more powerful platform than the current Prius.
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fbharjo commented on the word sedan
What a coup(e)!
September 19, 2007
teukkam commented on the word sedan
- Why does a chicken coop have 2 doors?
- If it had 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan.
December 9, 2009
dontcry commented on the word sedan
*snort*
December 9, 2009