Toyota

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

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A surname from Japanese.

proper noun

1
A surname from Japanese.
2
A city in Aichi, Japan. A city near Nagoya, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
3
The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds.
4
A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.
It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.

noun

1
A car of the brand Toyota

Forms

plural: Toyotas

toxin · A toxic substance, specifically a poison produced by the…toy · Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a…Toy · A surname.

Toyota · A surname from Japanese.

trace · An act of tracing.Trace · A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.traces · minute remnants

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