Meanings
nounprivate car (plural private cars)
plural private cars
- A car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.
- USrail transportA railroad passenger car that is either privately owned or used privately, or both.
In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.
1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 私家車 /私家车
- 私家車 /私家车 (sījiāchē)privately owned car
Danish privatbil
- privatbilprivately owned car
Finnish yksityisauto
- yksityisautoprivately owned car
German Privatwagen, Privatauto
- Privatwagenprivately owned car
- Privatautoprivately owned car
Icelandic einkabíll, einkabifreið
- einkabíllprivately owned car
- einkabifreiðprivately owned car
Norwegian Bokmål personbil, privatbil
- personbilprivately owned car
- privatbilprivately owned car
Spanish coche privado
- coche privadoprivately owned car
Swedish privatbil
- privatbilprivately owned car
Cite this entry
APA
private car. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/private%20car
MLA
“private car.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/private%20car. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “private car,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/private%20car.
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