SEDAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sedan mean? 

• SEDAN (noun)
  The noun SEDAN has 2 senses:

1. a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors

2. a closed litter for one passenger

  Familiarity information: SEDAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEDAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

saloon; sedan

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedan"):

brougham (a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A closed litter for one passenger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sedan; sedan chair

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

litter (conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedan"):

jampan (a kind of sedan chair used in India)

 Context examples 

The people, who had often heard of me, were very curious to crowd about the sedan, and the girl was complaisant enough to make the bearers stop, and to take me in her hand, that I might be more conveniently seen.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the fashion of the country, borne by four men, and attended by two others in the queen’s livery.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)