A car, truck, tractor, or other vehicle of this make.
There were several of us and we had a little caravan — the Lanchester, a Packard, and a Ford or two. 1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:
And they can also live in a bigger house and drive something a little fancier than a Chevy or a Ford. 2001, Bernard Goldberg, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distort the News, page 174:
Elmore Leonard is as dependable as a Ford used to be and as knowing as a New York fashion designer. 1989, Elmore Leonard, Killshot:
Their grandparents always drove Fords.
When she spotted her stepfather coming towards her she had pulled over and Wodehouse crossed over to greet her, noticing too late that she was being followed by a Ford, which swerved to avoid the Buick. 2004, Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life, page 154:
Why don't you go round the country with a Ford van, preaching on market days? 1995, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, page 90:
It is easy to see why the modern car manufacturer does not enjoy the eminence of a Ford or an Olds. 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, page 141
But if he had a Ford automobile, he could simply telephone the garage, and--
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We didn't need a Ford motorcar. 2003, Lois Lowry, The Silent Boy, page 140:
I remembered too late that Honey should probably drive a cute little Mini or a Ford Fiesta or some such. Damn. 2006, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency, page 59:
He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving a Ford when he could and should be driving a Porsche. 2005, William Braxton Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, page 26:
A Ford dealer in Saudi Arabia repeatedly warned the automaker the same year that Firestone tires were failing on Explorers.
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A Ford memo in March 1999 said that Firestone's legal staff did not want to replace tires in Saudi Arabia for fear that doing so would require Firestone to notify NHTSA, and added that a Ford lawyer had worries "similar to the Firestone concerns." 2004, Keith Bradsher, High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV, page 304:
Unless, of course, he limped away, not sauntered off, maybe dragged himself to a hospital, maybe got out okay, maybe died, far from anything to tie him to a Ford extra cab, far from any ties to hometown news. 2000, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward, page 24:
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me 1972, “Take It Easy”, performed by Eagles:
They have a Ford car now, and she don't seem so far away from me as she used to. 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia:
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(countable, uncountable) A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
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(countable, uncountable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A number of places in England: ▸ A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United Kingdom: ▸ A hamlet in Wolfscastle community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526).
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A ghost town in Bartow County, Georgia.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A minor city and township in Ford County, Kansas.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township in Kanabec County, Minnesota.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
(countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
(countable, uncountable) A carmaker, the Ford Motor Company; its brand.