anticar
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
anticar (comparative more anticar, superlative most anticar)
- Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
- 1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.
- 2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.
Noun[edit]
anticar (plural anticars)
- An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
- 1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning[3], page 362:
- He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.
- 2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times[4]:
- It was a virtual anticar.
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French antiquaire.
Noun[edit]
anticar m (plural anticari)
Declension[edit]
Declension of anticar
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) anticar | anticarul | (niște) anticari | anticarii |
genitive/dative | (unui) anticar | anticarului | (unor) anticari | anticarilor |
vocative | anticarule | anticarilor |