AUTO

car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar

(noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; “he needs a car to get to work”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Auto

An unincorporated community in West Virginia

Anagrams

• aout, outa

Etymology 1

Adjective

auto (not comparable)

Clipping of automatic. (of a gearbox / transmission)

Noun

auto (plural autos)

(chiefly, attributively) An automobile.

A setting for automatic operation.

Synonym: automatic

Antonym: manual

An automatic gearbox / transmission.

A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.

Synonyms

• (automobile, attributively): automobile, car, motorcar; motor

Etymology 2

Noun

auto (plural autos)

(India) An autorickshaw.

Anagrams

• aout, outa

Source: Wiktionary


Au"to- (. Etym: [Gr.

Definition: A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNSEASONED

(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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