Hyundai

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UK/haɪˈʌn.daɪ/UK/haɪˈʊn.daɪ/US/ˈh(j)ʌn.deɪ/US/ˈh(j)ʌn.daɪ/

noun

A car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.

CommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounHyundai (plural Hyundais)

plural Hyundais

  1. A car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group.

    The stove was the size of his Hyundai back home.

    2011, Bruce Dundore, The Seduction Diet, page 73
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    She could just imagine him wilting as Janice made insinuations about his boy-executive clothes, his Hyundai, the section of town he lived in, the school he had gone to.

    1991, Writing Center of New Mexico State University, Puerto Del Sol, volume 26, page 201

    He had been such an ineffectual thief that the store-owner had seized the weapon from King and sent him running for his Hyundai as the store-owner took down the license plate number.

    2007, Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 338

    The vocals and the music are as earnest as the lyrics are hilarious, with the narrator asking Jenny to step inside his Hyundai after comparing her to ripe fruit and impressing her with a fresh pack of gum.

    2010, Anthony Bozza, Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem, page 195

Origin

  1. Korean현대(現代)“modern times”
  2. EnglishHyundai

Borrowed from Korean 현대(現代) (hyeondae, “modern times”). The Hyundai Motor Group takes its name from the conglomerate with which it was historically affiliated, the Hyundai Group.

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Translations

Bulgarian хюндай
  • хюндай (hjundaj)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Chinese 現代 /现代
  • 現代 /现代 (xiàndài)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
French Hyundai
  • Hyundaicar manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
German Hyundai
  • Hyundaicar manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Japanese ヒョンデ, ヒュンダイ
  • ヒョンデ (hyonde)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
  • ヒュンダイ (hyundai)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
  • 現代 (gendai)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Korean 현대
  • 현대 (hyeondae)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Norwegian Bokmål Hyundai
  • Hyundaicar manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Russian Хёндэ́, Хунда́й
  • Хёндэ́ (Xjondɛ́)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
  • Хунда́й (Xundáj)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
  • Хюнда́й (Xjundáj)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
  • Хёнда́й (Xjondáj)car manufactured by the Hyundai Motor Group
Cite this entry
APA

Hyundai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hyundai

MLA

“Hyundai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hyundai. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hyundai,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hyundai.

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