tractor
noun /ˈtræktə(r)/
/ˈtræktər/
- enlarge imagea powerful vehicle with two large and two smaller wheels, used especially for pulling farm machines
- a farmer on his tractor
- the sound of a tractor ploughing in the field nearby
WordfinderTopics Farmingc1, Transport by car or lorryc1- arable
- barn
- crop
- cultivate
- dairy
- fallow
- farm
- graze
- livestock
- tractor
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- agricultural
- farm
- lawn
- …
- drive
- use
- plough/plow
- work
- driver
- shed
- tyre/tire
- …
- on a/the tractor
- a tractor and trailer
- enlarge image(North American English) the front part of a tractor-trailer, where the driver sits
Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the general sense ‘someone or something that pulls’): from Latin, from tract- ‘pulled’, from the verb trahere.