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Cadillac

Cadillac

114 3.8
A famous American car brand that makes luxury cars
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkædɪlæk/
translation icon : Cadillac
  • Marietta leaves her Cadillac Seville in her driveway and enters the house.
  • drive a Cadillac

Big Blue Cadillac that only had two doors, but the doors were so long.

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Examples

  • Light snow falls in the Smokies as the Cadillac speeds north on old U.S. 11.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The Invernesses had bought a two-year-old Cadillac for nothing down and payments of over four hundred dollars a month.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • So we recently got a Cadillac and it actually shows you free parking lot.

  • Big Blue Cadillac that only had two doors, but the doors were so long.

  • - Then they went off in that nice Cadillac.

  • Only a month ago, Chris had sold one of my brothers a Cadillac for a song.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Williams and Price get into Hank's blue Cadillac, wave goodbye to Don, and drive off.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Thanks to heavy capital investment, such American brands as Cadillac were fast gaining on Rolls-Royce in quality and performance.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Hank pulls his new baby blue Cadillac convertible in front of the house.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Last weekend, we took a long drive in our beautiful new Cadillac through the countryside.

Compounds

A very rich, showy way of living with many expensive things

A situation when you have too many very good choices to pick from

9.9

A negative idea that a person on welfare has an expensive car to suggest they are cheating on benefits

How Luxurious

Cadillac
114 3.8
GLB
7.5
minivan
  • US
80 1.9
compact car
  • US
4 2.8
minicar
1 3.5

Surface Forms

Cadillac main

Etymology

Cadillac (the car brand) is named after the French explorer Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who used the name of a small village in France; the car maker chose his name to give a sense of history and prestige. So a Cadillac is known for 'luxury' and high quality.