Meanings
limousine1
plural limousines
- An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
- A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.First known use 1930s
1 more example
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.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6Synonyms: limo
Limousine2
- alternativeAlternative form of Limousin (“former region in France”).
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn automobile with such a body.
nounA luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
nounAn automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- LatinLemovices
- Englishlimousine
Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm. First attested in 1902.
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Afrikaans limousine, limo
- limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
- limoluxury sedan/saloon car
Arabic لِيمُوزِين
- لِيمُوزِين (līmūzīn)luxury sedan/saloon car
Bulgarian лимузи́на
- лимузи́на (limuzína)luxury sedan/saloon car
Catalan limusina
- limusinaluxury sedan/saloon car
Chinese Mandarin 豪華轎車 /豪华轿车, 加長轎車 /加长轿车
- 豪華轎車 /豪华轿车 (háohuá jiàochē)luxury sedan/saloon car
- 加長轎車 /加长轿车 (jiācháng jiàochē)luxury sedan/saloon car
Czech limuzína
- limuzínaluxury sedan/saloon car
Danish limousine
- limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
Dutch limousine, limo
- limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
- limoluxury sedan/saloon car
Finnish limusiini
- limusiiniluxury sedan/saloon car
French limousine
- limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
German Limousine, Stretchlimousine
- Limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
- Stretchlimousineluxury sedan/saloon car
Greek λιμουζίνα
- λιμουζίνα (limouzína)luxury sedan/saloon car
Hebrew לימוזינה
- לימוזינה (limuzína)luxury sedan/saloon car
Hindi लिमोसिन
- लिमोसिन (limosin)luxury sedan/saloon car
Hungarian limuzin
- limuzinluxury sedan/saloon car
Icelandic limmósína, glæsivagn
- limmósínaluxury sedan/saloon car
- glæsivagnluxury sedan/saloon car
- eðalvagnluxury sedan/saloon car
Indonesian limusin, limosin
- limusinluxury sedan/saloon car
- limosinluxury sedan/saloon car
Italian limousine
- limousineluxury sedan/saloon car
Japanese リムジン, リモ
- リムジン (rimujin)luxury sedan/saloon car
- リモ (rimo)luxury sedan/saloon car
Korean 리무진, 리모
- 리무진 (rimujin)luxury sedan/saloon car
- 리모 (rimo)luxury sedan/saloon car
Latvian limuzīns
- limuzīnsluxury sedan/saloon car
Lithuanian limuzinas
- limuzinasluxury sedan/saloon car
Malay limusin
- limusinluxury sedan/saloon car
Norwegian limousin, limo
- limousinluxury sedan/saloon car
- limoluxury sedan/saloon car
Persian لیموزین
- لیموزینluxury sedan/saloon car
Polish limuzyna, limuzyna
- limuzynaautomobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front
- limuzynaautomobile with such a body
- limuzynaluxury sedan/saloon car
Portuguese limusine, limusina
- limusineluxury sedan/saloon car
- limusinaluxury sedan/saloon car
Romanian limuzină
- limuzinăluxury sedan/saloon car
Russian лимузи́н
- лимузи́н (limuzín)luxury sedan/saloon car
Slovak limuzína
- limuzínaluxury sedan/saloon car
Spanish limusina
- limusinaluxury sedan/saloon car
Swedish limousin
- limousinluxury sedan/saloon car
Tagalog limusina, limo
- limusinaluxury sedan/saloon car
- limoluxury sedan/saloon car
Thai ลีมูซีน, ลีโม
- ลีมูซีน (lee-moo-seen)luxury sedan/saloon car
- ลีโม (līmo)luxury sedan/saloon car
Turkish limuzin
- limuzinluxury sedan/saloon car
Ukrainian лімузин
- лімузин (limuzyn)luxury sedan/saloon car
Vietnamese li-mô-xin, li-mô-din
- li-mô-xinluxury sedan/saloon car
- li-mô-dinluxury sedan/saloon car
- li-môluxury sedan/saloon car
Cite this entry
limousine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limousine
“limousine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limousine. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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