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PRONUNCIATION OF HANSOM CAB

hansom cab  [ˈhænsəm kæb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HANSOM CAB

noun
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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Hansom cab is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HANSOM CAB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hansom cab

Hansom cab

The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety cab, it was designed to combine speed with safety, with a low centre of gravity for safe cornering. Hansom's original design was modified by John Chapman and several others to improve its practicability, but retained Hansom's name. Cab is a shortening of cabriolet, reflecting the design of the carriage. It replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire; with the introduction of clockwork mechanical taximeters to measure fares, the name became taxicab. Hansom cabs enjoyed immense popularity as they were fast, light enough to be pulled by a single horse and were agile enough to steer around horse-drawn vehicles in the notorious traffic jams of nineteenth-century London. There were up to 7500 hansom cabs in use at the height of their popularity and they quickly spread to other cities in the United Kingdom, as well as continental European cities, particularly Paris, Berlin, and St Petersburg.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HANSOM CAB


cab
kæb
kab
kæb
minicab
ˈmɪnɪˌkæb
pedicab
ˈpɛdɪˌkæb
scab
skæb
taxicab
ˈtæksɪkæb
vocab
ˈvəʊkæb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HANSOM CAB

hansel
hanselled
hanselling
Hansen´s disease
hansom
hantavirus
hantle
Hants
hanukiah
Hanukkah
Hanuman
Hanyang
haole
haoma
hap
hapax
hapax legomena
hapax legomenon
hapaxanthic
hapaxanthous

WORDS THAT END LIKE HANSOM CAB

Arab
Bab
black cab
Checker cab
crab
dab
fab
gab
gipsy cab
grab
gypsy cab
hackney cab
kebab
lab
Punjab
radio cab
rehab
sab
slab
tab

Synonyms and antonyms of hansom cab in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hansom cab» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANSOM CAB

Find out the translation of hansom cab to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hansom cab from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hansom cab» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

汉瑟姆驾驶室
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Carruaje
570 millions of speakers

English

hansom cab
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इक्का टैक्सी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hansom أجرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

двуколке
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hansom cab
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হ্যান্সব ক্যাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fiacre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hansom cab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fiaker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハンサム馬車
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

륜 마차 택시
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hansom cab
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cab xe ngựa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹான்ஸம் வண்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हंसोम कॅब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hansom taksi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carrozza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kabina dorożką
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

двоколці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

birjă taxi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίτροχη άμαξα cab
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Hansom taxi
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

droska hytt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hansom cab
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hansom cab

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HANSOM CAB»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hansom cab

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANSOM CAB»

Discover the use of hansom cab in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hansom cab and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
From the salons of the city's elite to the slums of Little Bourke St, the exquisitely plotted story follows the investigation, inquest and trial of the murder of a little-known English migrant.
Fergus Hume, 2010
2
The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab: Text Classics
This edition for the first time reproduces the text of the original Melbourne edition printed by Kemp and Boyce in 1886. Other reprints have relied on later versions in which local details are ommitted and language is bowdlerised.
Fergus Hume, 2012
3
Hansom Cab
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn cart designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
4
Taxicab Vehicles: Litter, Hackney Carriage, Checker Taxi, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books Llc, 2010
5
The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom ...
Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882) : Designing the Hansom Cab, the Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the Catholic Revival
Penelope Harris, 2010
6
Return of Don Quixote
The third was more curious; it was a hansom cab standing outside one of the houses; but a hansom cab that partook of the same almost sinister antiquity. All this happened before the hansom cab had become an extinct creature to be reserved ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 2008
7
Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
The complete story of the traditional taxi from Hansom cab forebears to the very latest TX1 taxi launched late in 1997.
Malcolm Bobbitt
8
The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories
In the 1830s, an architect named Joseph Hansom introduced a further refinement of the cab, placing the seat for the driver in front and enclosing the passenger compartment. Thus we have the first hansom cab, which soon was shortened to ...
‎1991
9
Tremendous Trifles
Still, as there are some people, virginal and remote from the world, who have not yet had this luxurious experience, I will give a short account of the psychology of myself when my hansom cab ran into the side of a motor omnibus, and I hope ...
G. K. Chesterton, 2007
10
Metropolitan Works
“The original hansom cab, designed by an architect of that name in 1834, was like a huge packing case, with a slightly sloping roof, suspended between two enormous wheels which were seven feet six inches in diameter; but the cab which ...
Ralph Turvey

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANSOM CAB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hansom cab is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lucy Sussex, Blockbuster: Fergus Hume & The Mystery of a Hansom
6 for 6.30pm, Thursday 16 July: Event launch with Lucy Sussex for her latest book, Blockbuster: Fergus Hume & The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. The Story of the ... «ArtsHub, Jul 15»
2
Jet Stet: An SI editor earns his wings with the high-flying Breitling team
As the nose of the Albatros started to point upward I could hear Charbo humming to himself as absentmindedly as a hansom cab driver trotting ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
3
The talented Mr Trumper
Light rain began to fall as the Australians' hansom cab arrived at Noble's beckoning. Vic strolled over to the boy, put out his hand and gave the ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
4
Sisters in Crime: Lucy Sussex
... Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab at St Kilda in 2015. ... of the Hansom Cab (1886) became the fastest-selling detective novel ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume: Australia's first …
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is remarkable if for no other reason than it was the first Australian book of any kind to find a huge audience ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
6
Devangshu Datta: Uber invincible
In terms of essentials, cab services probably have not changed conceptually anywhere since the days of the horse-drawn hansom cab. «Business Standard, Jun 15»
7
Town Hall is now a Grade I Listed feather in Birmingham's cap
... Triennial Music Festival – raising cash for the city's General Hospital – was staged it was designed by Joseph Hansom, of Hansom cab fame, ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
8
Louis Le Prince, who shot the world's first film in Leeds
Being so late, he probably hailed a hansom cab to take him to his workshop. I think the driver, taking advantage of the hour and the darkness, ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
9
Red hair: a blessing or a curse?
The pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, jumping out of a hansom cab in London in 1865 in pursuit of a beautiful teenager ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
10
New name revealed for Hungry Horse pub
Due to open in August, with the creation of around 50 jobs, the latest venture by Hungry Horse will, fittingly, be called the Hansom Cab. «Hinckley Times, Jun 15»

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