"motor vehicle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: motor vehicles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} motor vehicle (plural motor vehicles)
  1. Any land-based means of transportation in the form of a machine that operates primarily through a motor to provide power to rotate the tires. Categories (topical): Vehicles Hyponyms: motor car (alt: motorcar) (english: as well as car in that same sense), motor truck (alt: motortruck) (english: as well as truck in that same sense) Translations (any land-based means of transportation): 汽車 (Chinese Mandarin), 汽车 (qìchē) (Chinese Mandarin), 機動車 (Chinese Mandarin), 机动车 (jīdòngchē) (Chinese Mandarin), motorkøretøj [neuter] (Danish), motorvoertuig [neuter] (Dutch), motorveturilo (Esperanto), motorakfar [neuter] (Faroese), moottoriajoneuvo (Finnish), véhicule automobile [masculine] (French), automóbil [masculine] (Galician), Kraftfahrzeug [neuter] (German), vélknúið ökutæki [neuter] (Icelandic), feithicil mhótair [feminine] (Irish), autoveicolo [masculine] (Italian), motorinė transporto priemonė (Lithuanian), motorkjøretøy [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), motorvogn [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), motorkøyretøy [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), motorvogn [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), automóvel [masculine] (Portuguese), autovehicul [neuter] (Romanian), automobil [neuter] (Romanian), автомоби́ль (avtomobílʹ) [masculine] (Russian), автомаши́на (avtomašína) [feminine] (Russian), vehículo automóvil [masculine] (Spanish), motorfordon [neuter] (Swedish)

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          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "Kraftfahrzeug"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
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      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "word": "moottoriajoneuvo"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "véhicule automobile"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "automóbil"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kraftfahrzeug"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vélknúið ökutæki"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "feithicil mhótair"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autoveicolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "word": "motorinė transporto priemonė"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "motorkjøretøy"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "motorvogn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "motorkøyretøy"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "motorvogn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "automóvel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "autovehicul"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "automobil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtomobílʹ",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "автомоби́ль"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtomašína",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "автомаши́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vehículo automóvil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any land-based means of transportation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "motorfordon"
    }
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