Sedanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /səˈdæn/
• 韻: -æn

名詞

sedan (plural sedans)

1. An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 222–223:

     The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan, and the Girl was complaiſant enough to make the Bearers ſtop, and to take me in her Hand that I might be conveniently ſeen.

2. (US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space.
   • 1986 May, Jack Keebler, U.S. Family Sedans - traditional technology takes on state of the art, Popular Science, page 24,

     What we are observing in this sedan square-off is the cumulative effect of modern design technology on the family sedan.

   • 1996, Dennis Adler, Fifties Flashback: The American Car, published 2004, page 22:

     In addition there was a companion four-door sedan, mounted on the C- 38 Series 121.5-inch platform and equipped with the 1 14-horsepower L-head six.

   • 2005, Dennis W. Parks, American Hot Rod: How to Build a Hot Rod with Boyd Coddington, page 115:

     The 1929 Model A Tudor sedan on these pages will receive a mild top chop of 3 inches, combined with the installation of a rear delivery door and a filled roof.

同意語

• (chair carried by porters): litter, sedan chair
• (body style of a car): saloon (UK)

派生語

• sedanlike
• station sedan

語源 2

Invented at Sedan in France.

名詞

sedan (plural sedans)

1. A handbarrow for transporting fish.

参照

アナグラム

• Desna, snead, Snead, Sande, Deans, deans, nades, Adens, DNase, Denas, saden, Sedna, Danes, Neads, Andes