Other forms: sedans
A sedan is a car with a separate boot behind the passenger seats. Three distinct boxes: engine, cabin, luggage.
This is the American word, and British English says saloon for exactly the same shape. The alternative is a hatchback, where the rear door opens onto the passenger space, and an estate or station wagon, which is longer. There is a much older sense, since a sedan chair was a covered box carried on poles by two men, and that is where the car name ultimately comes from.
1nounsedanA car with a separate enclosed boot, called a saloon in Britain.
“He drove an old grey sedan.”
Also accepted in games: saloon
Latin
sedes
Italian
sede — seat
English, today
sedan
The sense of "windowed chair" was first used by Sir Sanders Duncombe in 1634, possibly from a southern Italian dialect of Italian sede (“seat”), from Latin sedes. The "motorcar" sense was first recorded in 1912 in North America.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA