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WAGON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat
Synonyms:
beach waggon; beach wagon; estate car; station waggon; station wagon; waggon; wagon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wagon" is a kind of...):
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
Meronyms (parts of "wagon"):
tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wagon"):
shooting brake (another name for a station wagon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Van used by police to transport prisoners
Synonyms:
black Maria; paddy wagon; patrol wagon; police van; police wagon; wagon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wagon" is a kind of...):
van (a truck with an enclosed cargo space)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor
Synonyms:
waggon; wagon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wagon" is a kind of...):
wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)
Meronyms (parts of "wagon"):
wagon wheel (a wheel of a wagon)
axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wagon"):
bandwagon (a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band)
cart (a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal)
chuck wagon (a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys))
Conestoga; Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie schooner; prairie wagon (a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century)
ice-wagon; ice wagon ((formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door)
lorry (a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides)
milk wagon; milkwagon (wagon for delivering milk)
tram; tramcar (a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine)
wain (large open farm wagon)
water waggon; water wagon (a wagon that carries water (as for troops or work gangs or to sprinkle down dusty dirt roads in the summertime))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting
Synonyms:
coaster wagon; wagon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wagon" is a kind of...):
wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Synonyms:
Big Dipper; Charles's Wain; Dipper; Plough; Wagon; Wain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
asterism ((astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation))
Holonyms ("Wagon" is a part of...):
Great Bear; Ursa Major (a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star)
Context examples:
Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Not more than six or eight will probably come, so I shall hire a beach wagon and borrow Mr. Laurence's cherry-bounce. (Hannah's pronunciation of char-a-banc.)
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"If that brother of yours was worth his salt, he could take the wagon," he snorted.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Four men gingerly carried the crate from the wagon into a small, high-walled back yard.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Then the cake and ice cost more than Amy expected, so did the wagon, and various other expenses, which seemed trifling at the outset, counted up rather alarmingly afterward.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With Tom quit, I'll have to be out on the wagon, an' you can make up your mind to it to be down below waitin' on the counter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the midst of them was a cart, a long leiter-wagon which swept from side to side, like a dog's tail wagging, with each stern inequality of the road.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Clerks in the express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"It's fair hell, I know," the other went on, "but I kind of hate to see you come off the wagon, Mart. Well, here's how!"
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
