sedan

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.[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈdæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

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.

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

• sedanlike
• station sedan

Invented at Sedan in France.

sedan (plural sedans)

1. A handbarrow for transporting fish.

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

Borrowed from English sedan.

• IPA^(key): /səˈdɑn/

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• Hyphenation: se‧dan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

sedan m (plural sedans)

1. (automotive) sedan, saloon (car type) [from late 1910s]
   • 1918 March 28, “Correspondentie. Rock Valley”, in De Volksvriend, volume 44, number 19, page 3:

     Deze week worden nog 10 meer Fords verwacht, waarbij 7 Sedans zijn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From English sedan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsedɑn/, [ˈs̠e̞dɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -edɑn
• Syllabification^(key): se‧dan

sedan

1. sedan (body style for cars)

• porrasperä

• korimalli

• “sedan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Hyphenation: se‧dan

sedan m (plural sedans)

1. Alternative spelling of sedã

sedan

1. third-person plural present indicative of sedar

From Old Swedish siþan, from Old Norse síðan. See Norwegian siden. Cognate with Old English siþþan.

• IPA^(key): /seːdan/ (formal)
• IPA^(key): /sɛn/ (colloquial)

sedan (not comparable)

1. then, after this (that), afterwards; next in order

   Först försökte vi på mitt sätt, sedan på hans.

   First we tried my way, then his.

• sen (colloquial)

sedan

1. since, from the time that (and often as a consequence of)

   Sedan vi sålde bilen cyklar vi överallt.

   Since we sold the car, we bike everywhere.

• sen (colloquial)

sedan

1. since; from a given point in time

   Sedan det året har vi varit tillsammans ständigt.

   Since that year, we have been together all the time.

• sen

• för ... sedan

From English sedan.

sedan c

1. sedan; a body style of a car

• sedan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sedan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sedan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• andes, dasen, sneda