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vehicular

UK/viːɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/US/viˈhɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/
adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — vehicle sits at #1,401leans writtenformal · an editor’s judgement

Vehicular means to do with vehicles — cars, vans, lorries, traffic. A sign reading no vehicular access means you may walk in but not drive.

It is a formal word and it lives on signs, in planning documents and in law. Vehicular traffic, a vehicular bridge, vehicular manslaughter in an American courtroom. Nobody says it in conversation: you say traffic, or driving. Its whole usefulness is precision — a council needs one word that separates people on foot from people in cars, and pedestrian and vehicular are that pair.

Definitions of vehicular

  1. 1adjectivevehicularRelating to cars and other road vehicles.C1

    “The lane is closed to vehicular traffic.”

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    vehiculāris

  2. English, today

    vehicular

From Latin vehiculāris. by surface analysis, vehicle + -ar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 22 of A Man Called Ove.

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vehicular in the wild

  • In cases of criminal negligence, the defendant is commonly charged with unintentional vehicular manslaughter.

    Vehicular homicide

  • The phrase vehicular cycling was coined by John Forester in the 1970s.

    Vehicular cycling

  • As a method for riders to cope with fast motor traffic, many recommendations of vehicular cycling are widely applied.

    Vehicular cycling

  • IEEE 802.11p is an approved amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard to add wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE), a vehicular communication system.

    IEEE 802.11p

  • A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a proposed type of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) involving road vehicles.

    Vehicular ad hoc network

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • vehicle