Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun horseless_carriage

1 sense of horseless carriage

Sense 1
horseless carriage -- (an early term for an automobile; "when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages")
       => car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar -- (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work")