limousine

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicinus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɪməˈziːn/

limousine (plural limousines)

1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
2. An automobile with such a body. [from 1902]

   Synonym: limo (slang)

3. A luxury sedan/saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. [from 1930s]

   Synonym: limo (slang)

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses. [from 1959]

   Synonym: shuttle

• limo
• limousinelike
• limousine liberal

• limousine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “limousine” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

Borrowed from French limousine or English limousine.

limousine (plural limousines)

1. limousine (luxury sedan)

   Synonym: limo

• limo

Borrowed from French limousine.

• IPA^(key): /ˌli.muˈzi.nə/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˌli.moːˈzi.nə/

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• Hyphenation: li‧mou‧si‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. limousine (luxury sedan)

   Synonym: limo

• limo

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud[1][2].

• IPA^(key): /li.mu.zin/

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. (fashion) traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne
2. (automotive) limousine, luxury car

   Synonym: berline

3. (zoology) limousin (cattle breed)

limousine

1. feminine singular of limousin

• “limousine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. Alternative spelling of limusine