noun

• 1A time machine.

  ‘The Proclaimers were once asked where they would most like a Tardis to drop them in history, and expressed a wish to be flies on the studio wall while Van Morrison and the Chieftains recorded their Irish Heartbeat album.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He said: "The Tardis can travel anywhere through space and time, so it could be going anywhere, including Swindon."’
  • ‘Aunty screens the original series, when he introduced us to the joys of time travel in the Tardis.’
  • ‘Propped up against one speaker, there's a postcard of the Tardis materialising in the middle of a stone circle.’
  • ‘The experience of the bathrooms is like stepping into a time capsule, like a modern Tardis contrasting with the ‘olde-worldy’ charm of the rooms themselves.’

• 2A building or container that is larger inside than it appears to be from outside.

  ‘The mind is like a Tardis, far bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Though the building looks very spacious from the outside, the staff have dubbed it the Tardis in reverse, as the interior is more compact than you would imagine.’
  • ‘The experimental house has been compared to a Tardis.’
  • ‘It's a bit of a Tardis - two townhouses knocked together, with a long gallery at the back where the garden used to be.’
  • ‘Stretching away at the back of the house - like the rural equivalent of a Tardis - are 17 acres of land.’