Definition of hansom in English:
hansom
(also hansom cab)
nounˈhans(ə)mˈhænsəm
A two-wheeled horse-drawn cab accommodating two inside, with the driver seated behind.
〈史〉（车夫的座位在车后的）双轮双座马车- He goes to Bond Street and hails a hansom, tells the driver an address, and gives him some extra money when the driver tells him it is too far.
- I spied a steam engine I could use to fashion a turret, and boiler plates could be secured inside the hansom to armor us from their fell weapons.
- Unless you're playing racquetball at the New York Athletic Club or taking Aunt Doris for a sorry ride in a hansom cab, exactly what would you be doing on these three blocks?
- Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside.
- It was the day of the horse-drawn waggonettes, cabs, hansoms etc, filled with race-goers and which passed in rapid succession.
wagon, hackney, gig, landau, trap, caravan, car
Origin
Mid 19th century: named after Joseph A. Hansom (1803–82), English architect, patentee of such a cab in 1834.
Rhymes
ransom, Ransome, transom
Definition of hansom in US English:
hansom
(also hansom cab)
nounˈhænsəmˈhansəm
historical A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage accommodating two inside, with the driver seated behind.
〈史〉（车夫的座位在车后的）双轮双座马车- It was the day of the horse-drawn waggonettes, cabs, hansoms etc, filled with race-goers and which passed in rapid succession.
- Unless you're playing racquetball at the New York Athletic Club or taking Aunt Doris for a sorry ride in a hansom cab, exactly what would you be doing on these three blocks?
- He goes to Bond Street and hails a hansom, tells the driver an address, and gives him some extra money when the driver tells him it is too far.
- Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside.
- I spied a steam engine I could use to fashion a turret, and boiler plates could be secured inside the hansom to armor us from their fell weapons.
wagon, hackney, gig, landau, trap, caravan, car
Origin
Mid 19th century: named after Joseph A. Hansom (1803–82), English architect, patentee of such a cab in 1834.