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Volvo

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈvɒlvəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//ˈvɔlvəw//
  • United States//ˈvɑlvoʊ//
  • United States//ˈvoʊlvoʊ//
  • Australia//ˈvɔlvəʉ//
  • New Zealand//ˈvɒlvɐʉ//

The Volvo Car Corporation, a Swedish manufacturer of cars, now owned by the Chinese holding company Geely.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The Volvo Car Corporation, a Swedish manufacturer of cars, now owned by the Chinese holding company Geely.

Etymology

From Swedish Volvo, from Latin volvō (“to roll”), in reference to ball bearings which were the company's original product.

noun

  1. 1

    A motor car manufactured by Volvo.

Forms

plural
Volvos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).