tractor

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications
noun a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

"I can drive a tractor." — Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Unknown
De- tractors vocally dispute that argument. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
Compare traction, tractor, attract, extract, subtract. — Stories from Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore

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