wagon

Meaning

Noun

1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. (New-England, US) A shopping cart.
4. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (Australia, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
8. (Ireland, dated, derogatory, slang) Term of abuse.
9. (Ireland, broadly, derogatory, slang) Term of abuse.
10. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
11. (slang) Buttocks.

Verb

1. (US, transitive) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
2. (US, intransitive) To travel in a wagon.

Synonyms

cart

waggon

carriage

chariot

car

🚗

dray

police van

paddy wagon

coach

van

patrol wagon

estate car

truck

🚚

buggy

vehicle

station wagon

beach waggon

beach wagon

coaster wagon

police wagon

station waggon

black Maria

go-cart

freight car

trolley

railway carriage

rairoad car

equipage

limber

plough

pusher

railcar

rig

roadster

runner

🏃

tractor

🚜

wain

wheelbarrow

rail car

railroad car

heavy and unwieldy carriage

donkey cart

ponycart

tub-cart

trumbrel

estate car tourist coach

fold-top car

box

📦

Translations

wagon

charrette

vagone

🚚

carro

vagón

Wagen

carro

βαγόνι

wagon

Waggon

chariot

عربة

carruagem

wagen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh.
Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Sentences

At the end the man tipped the wagon .