wagon
A heavier four-wheeled vehicle designed to carry goodsA heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
» My father is on the wagon.
Mein Vater rührt keinen Tropfen mehr an.
Мой отец в фургоне.
Мой отец в завязке.
Мій батько непитущий.
Meaning
7 sensesA heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
(New England, US)A shopping cart.
A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
Term of abuse.
(Ireland, dated, derogatory, slang)A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
Wagen
теле́гаteléga, теле́жкаteléžka, пово́зкаpovózka
(Ireland, broadly, derogatory, slang)An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
(slang)Buttocks.
Examples
63 sentencesMy father is on the wagon.
Мій батько непитущий.
ruМой отец в фургоне.
deMein Vater rührt keinen Tropfen mehr an.
Does Tom drive a station wagon?
Tom loaded coal on his wagon.
Does Tom still drive a station wagon?
Tom drives a truck and his wife drives a station wagon.
deTom fährt einen Lkw, und seine Frau fährt einen Kombi.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, fBorrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh.
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Forms
plural: wagonsSynonyms
139 synonyms- any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor:waggon
- a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting:coaster wagon
- a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat:beach wagonstation wagonestate carbeach waggonstation waggonwaggon
- van used by police to transport prisoners:police vanpolice wagonpaddy wagonpatrol wagonblack Maria
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major:Big DipperDipperPloughCharles-ap-s WainWain