"roadster" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹəʊdstə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-au-roadster.ogg Forms: roadsters [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊdstə(ɹ) Etymology: Derived from road + -ster. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|road|ster}} road + -ster Head templates: {{en-noun}} roadster (plural roadsters)
  1. (archaic) A horse for riding or driving on the road. Tags: archaic Translations (horse for riding or driving on the road): matkahevonen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-iTZkkOR3 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ster Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ster: 13 7 17 26 3 4 22 6 Disambiguation of 'horse for riding or driving on the road': 80 2 3 3 0 5 6 1
  2. A bicycle, or tricycle, adapted for common roads, rather than for the racing track, usually of classic style and steel-framed construction. Translations (bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads): maantiepyörä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-DgwSJBpV Disambiguation of 'bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads': 4 69 3 10 4 4 3 3
  3. (UK, dated) One who drives much; a coach driver. Tags: UK, dated Categories (topical): Hunting Translations (one who drives much; a coach driver): ajuri (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-nakaWlOp Disambiguation of Hunting: 2 10 39 19 12 2 11 6 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ster, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 8 14 32 5 3 28 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ster: 13 7 17 26 3 4 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 7 19 36 2 2 31 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 3 7 29 30 4 4 18 5 Disambiguation of 'one who drives much; a coach driver': 2 2 79 6 1 7 1 3
  4. (UK, dated, slang) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. Tags: UK, dated, slang Categories (lifeform): Horses
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-Jvaw5eMY Disambiguation of Horses: 9 11 20 28 4 3 20 5 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ster, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 8 14 32 5 3 28 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ster: 13 7 17 26 3 4 22 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 8 19 32 4 4 25 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 3 7 20 34 3 3 27 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 7 19 36 2 2 31 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 3 7 29 30 4 4 18 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 4 7 22 31 3 3 25 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 7 22 31 3 3 25 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 3 7 22 33 3 3 26 4
  5. An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat. Translations (type of open automobile): roadster (Finnish), kaksipaikkainen avoauto (Finnish), roadster (Italian), родстер (rodster) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-EkbKfCMl Disambiguation of 'type of open automobile': 0 0 1 0 98 0 0 1
  6. A person who lives along the road. Translations (person who lives along the road): kulkuri (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-gaJnFpe~ Disambiguation of 'person who lives along the road': 5 2 11 7 0 72 2 1
  7. a sea-going vessel riding at anchor in a road or bay.
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-0Iq1hit- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ster, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 8 14 32 5 3 28 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ster: 13 7 17 26 3 4 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 7 19 36 2 2 31 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 3 7 29 30 4 4 18 5
  8. (nautical) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. Categories (topical): Nautical, Vehicles
    Sense id: en-roadster-en-noun-HAfuPX7U Disambiguation of Vehicles: 4 9 12 17 14 2 13 29 Topics: nautical, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: roader, roadie, cabriolet, cabrio, convertible, drophead, High Nelly(Irish), landau, landaulet, nellie(Irish)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.