• IPA: /ˌlɪməˈziːn/

limousine (plural limousines)

1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
2. An automobile with such a body. [from 1902]

   Synonyms: limo (slang)

3. A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. [from 1930s]

   Synonyms: limo (slang)

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗, page 6 ↗:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses. [from 1959]

   Synonyms: shuttle

• French: limousine
• German: Limousine, Stretchlimousine
• Italian: limousine
• Portuguese: limusine, limusina
• Russian: лимузи́н
• Spanish: limusina

1. A region in France

• French: Limousin