PHAETON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phaeton mean? 

• PHAETON (noun)
  The noun PHAETON has 1 sense:

1. large open car seating four with folding top

  Familiarity information: PHAETON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHAETON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large open car seating four with folding top

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

phaeton; tourer; touring car

Hypernyms ("phaeton" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

 Context examples 

But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The phaeton was waiting, but we had scarcely started when some fellow seized the horses’ heads, and a couple of ruffians attacked us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He dined in town yesterday, and drove down in the phaeton by himself,” said Tiffey, “having sent his own groom home by the coach, as he sometimes did, you know—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Did not they tell me that Mr. Tilney and his sister were gone out in a phaeton together?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The phaeton went home without him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I said that I had my phaeton ready, and that he might, for all I knew, be only in time to receive the dying blessing of that parent whom he had never known.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A low phaeton, with a nice little pair of ponies, would be the very thing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How could you say you saw them driving out in a phaeton?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Of course I said I would do him the favour; and he was to drive me down in his phaeton, and to bring me back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We passed a phaeton and pair London-bound, and we left it behind as if it had been standing still.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)