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.
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A car of the brand Toyota
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fr Toyota (a Toyota car) · uk тойота (a Toyota car) · sk toyota (a Toyota car) · cmn 豐田車 /丰田车 (a Toyota car) · cmn 豐田 /丰田 (a Toyota car) · pl toyota (a Toyota car)
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.
Meanings
(countable) A surname from Japanese.
(countable, uncountable) A city in Aichi, Japan. A city near Nagoya, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
(countable, uncountable) 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. 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business:
(countable, uncountable) 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. 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:
ur ٹویوٹا (Toyota Motor Corporation) · el Τογιότα (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · cmn 豐田 /丰田 (Toyota Motor Corporation) · mr टोयोटा (Toyota Motor Corporation) · pl Toyota (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ko 토요타 (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · ja 豊田 (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ko 도요타 (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ja 豊田 (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · ar تُويُوتَا (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · he טויוטה (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ko 도요타 (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · ja トヨタ (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ar تُويُوتَا (Toyota Motor Corporation) · fa تویوتا (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ru Тойо́та (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ar تُويُوتَا (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ar تُويُوتَا (Toyota Motor Corporation) · cmn 豐田 /丰田 (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · lo ໂຕໂຢຕ້າ (Toyota Motor Corporation) · ja 豊田市 (city in the Aichi Prefecture) · hi टोयोटा (Toyota Motor Corporation)