Meanings
- The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.
a Model T moment
5 more examples
the Model T of [device category X]
This institution is no Model T.
1920, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 558In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.
1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, TimeJerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me.
1924, Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review, page 356I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian.
1928, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The New England Quarterly, Northeastern University, page 543Synonyms: T, tin Lizzie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.
Translations
Dutch T-Ford
- T-Fordfirst car made by Ford Motor Co. on an assembly line
Hungarian T Modell
- T Modellfirst car made by Ford Motor Co. on an assembly line
Cite this entry
Model T. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Model%20T
“Model T.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Model%20T. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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