Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: taxi
IPA transcription: [t'æksi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cab, hack, taxi, taxicab
    Meaning: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: taxi
    Meaning: travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway"
Usage examples
  • She saw a taxi draw up beside him.
  • Upon my word, I've half a mind to telephone for a taxi."
  • Nelson Smith." And before the words had left her lips a taxi drew up at the door.
  • He took it, raising it to his lips, and both were startled when the taxi stopped.
  • "A moment after I switched on the electricity in the room up there I heard a taxi drive away.
  • Impulsively she started forward, just as the taxi started and a moment later whizzed swiftly past her.
  • The advent of the taxi was announced, and arm in arm they limped down the steep path together to the road.
  • He phones for a taxi to go back to his hotel--about 9:15, that was, Miles says--but decides to walk down the hill to meet it.
  • Collins--the lad I sent to check up on the taxi companies--says he's located the driver that answered Sprague's call last night.
  • Not only did he shake hands, but actually came out to the taxi with them, asking Annesley if he should tell his cousins of her engagement, or if she preferred to give the news herself?