Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place where four (or more) roads or streets meet: now used only as the name of such a place in Oxford, England.
Wiktionary
- n. a junction of four roads
- n. the main intersection in a town
Etymologies
- Anglicisation of the Latin quadrifurcus "four-pronged, four-forked" (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Words drop out of the vocabulary all the time, too -- when was the last time you heard about anybody hanging out at the drugstore down at the carfax?”
“Plug the VIN number into the search engine at carfax. com.”
“If you're a AAA member you can get it extra cheap at aaa. com or you can go to carfax. com.”
“There was nought in the square or on the carfax at first but themselves; but after a little there entered by the east way and the west a rout of archers, and fell to shooting at Osberne's, and they back again.”
“Said the carle: "Dost thou remember the battle in the square by the carfax of the great City, and how there was a man before thy mighty hand who cried out to spare his life, for that he could tell thee of the said maiden; and thereon thou wert about to give him peace, but ere thou couldest take him to thy mercy he was slain by one of the carle-weavers?”
“Now after this Osberne and his drew not back from the carfax, but by the rede of him the townsmen made trenches and walls to strengthen them right up to the said carfax.”
“So at last they came unto a great carfax with a wide square round about it.”
“I'm going to do a carfax on the car before we get too serious about it.”
“The car that would be good for you, is whatever car you go and inspect, research, run your own carfax on, and eventually decide is a good purchase.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carfax’.
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phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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phrontistery - c
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czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Retrologisms
We're bringing it back.
Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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Dead (or dying) English Words
Inspired by the an old New York Times article and the Dictionary of Dying Danish Words list here on Wordie.
chorine, terpsichore, motorcar, motoring, centigrade, maven, tautology, pleonasm, contrariwise, spatchcock, mascaron, miasma and 29 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Smart Words
polysemy, dichotomy, metonymy, parapraxis, synecdoche, prosopopeia, mimesis, schadenfreude, pulchritudinous, neolithic, limn, phantasmagoric and 138 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Forthright's Words
aegrotat, almacantar, amphigory, barathrum, boustrophedon, cancrizans, carfax, colophon, delenda, diaglyph, enchiridion, episemon and 38 more...
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learning-list.
nugatory, fool, cell, cloud, architect, gelogenic, hallucinogen, esoteric, ignigenous, burn, nubigenous, apantomancy and 44 more...
Tweets
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johnmperry Latin for crossroads Jul 22, 2008