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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

貨車

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kasha

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Freight car/ˈfreɪt kɑːr/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"多くの貨车が貨物を積んで走り去った。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A railway vehicle designed for carrying goods, freight, or materials rather than passengers.

    "A long line of heavy freight-cars loaded with coal rolled down the tracks toward the terminal."
  2. 2

    A boxcar or generic cargo wagon used in commercial rail transport systems.

    "The logistics company utilized several freight-cars to transport bulk timber across the continent."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'freight', derived from Middle English and ultimately Germanic roots relating to the cost or cargo of transport, with 'car', derived from Old Northern French 'carre' and Latin 'carrus', referring to a wheeled vehicle. Historically emerging during the 19th-century railway expansion, it designates specialized rolling stock designed for carrying goods rather than passengers.

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