Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motor car \Motor car\, or Motorcar \Mo"tor*car`\, n.
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An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers and propelled by an internal combustion engine.
Syn: car, auto, automobile, machine.
(Elec. Railroads) Any car containing motors for propulsion. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of motorcar English)
Usage examples of "motor car".
Along the firebreak between the trees came a large black Russian motor car.
No reporters, thank God no reporters, and the big black motor car there waiting with the door open.
Can we not take a motor car and see these things, or better yet, simply take the train to the coast and be done with it!
In this game, someone prepared a tray on which there were a number of small familiar objects - generally about twenty -pencil, toy motor car, eggcup and so on.
Thomas Hudson had known him when he had had the motor car agency in Manila and a branch agency in Hong Kong.
The bags were loaded into an elongated motor car, the captain spoke to the control tower and to Shell upon the telephone, and the crew went back to the machine to move it to the park.
Dalloway jump and Miss Pym go to the window and apologise came from a motor car which had drawn to the side of the pavement precisely opposite Mulberry’.