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Definition of Passenger car
1. Noun. A railcar where passengers ride.
Generic synonyms: Car, Railcar, Railroad Car, Railway Car
Specialized synonyms: Buffet Car, Diner, Dining Car, Dining Compartment, Nonsmoker, Nonsmoking Car, Chair Car, Drawing-room Car, Palace Car, Parlor Car, Parlour Car, Pullman, Pullman Car, Sleeper, Sleeping Car, Wagon-lit, Smoker, Smoking Car, Smoking Carriage, Smoking Compartment
Group relationships: Passenger Train
Definition of Passenger car
1. Noun. A railroad car that carries passengers. ¹
2. Noun. A road vehicle that carries passengers; a motorcar or automobile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Passenger car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The other passenger and the plaintiff were about to alight from the passenger
car in the usual and ordinary manner, by descending the steps of the car. ..."
2. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"... Simple device for locking passenger car bodies to trucks, plan Eng N 69:187
Ja 23 '13 Snow tie boring and spike driving car. il Ry & Eng R 53:376 Ар 19 ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"85554- Steel passenger car. Illustrates and describes a sample standard 60 ft.
... Illustrated description of the all-steel type passenger car for use in ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On 27 July 1814, George Stephenson's first locomotive, Blucher, drew over the
Kenilworth colliery line a passenger- car made by placing the body of Lord ..."
5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"Steel passenger car. Illustrates and describes a sample standard 6o ft. steel
... Illustrated description of the all-steel type passenger car for use in ..."
6. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"SYMPOSIUM ON STEEL passenger car DESIGN No. 1388 a INTRODUCTION BY HH VAUGHAN,
MONTREAL, CANADA Member of the Society The advent of the steel passenger car ..."
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