Wiktionary
n. A small and economical car.
WordNet
n. a small and economical car [syn: compact]
Wikipedia
A compact car (North America), or small family car in British acceptation, is a classification of cars that are larger than a subcompact car but smaller than a mid-size car, equating roughly to the C-segment in Europe.
Usage examples of "compact car".
She could barely make out the road ten feet past the hood of the compact car.
A moment later, a vehicle somewhere between a compact car and a golf cart rolled into the parking lot, a whirling blue bubble light flashing on its roof.
Gillian watched a small compact car wind through the streets below while the silence of her hotel room hung around her.
He walked briskly across the parking lot and slowed when he reached a nondescript, white compact car, which he proceeded to unlock.
It took her about ten minutes to break the clerk down, but she brushed aside the offer of the compact car which Avis held in reserve for the occasional - very occasional - celebrity passing through Bangor and pressed on, scenting the young clerk's increasing fear of her as clearly as a hungry carnivore scents blood.
His driving license, also Canadian, had caused no problems in the renting of a compact car on long-term lease.
Limestone blocks the size of a compact car had slid down on top of that.
Planes and helicopters had neither radar guns nor good views of license tags, and he could just imagine a pilot calculating the speed of a northbound white compact car, for example, and radioing a trooper in his marked car to go after the offender.
The trooper would roar out from behind shrubbery in the median strip and flash and wail after the most likely northbound white compact car, selecting the vehicle from a scattered pack of white compact cars whizzing along the interstate.