wagon

CEFRB1

/ˈwæɡən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A vehicle with four wheels used for carrying people or goods.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A shopping cart.

Examples

  • Stop that, or I'll fix your wagon.

  • The farmer pitched the hay onto the wagon.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈwæɡən] ~ [ˈwæɡn̩]
  • [ˈweɪ̯ɡən] ~ [ˈweɪ̯ɡn̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

  3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.

More examples

In context

  • Then I'll help you overturn the wagon.

  • These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.

  • Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Albany, to which place he formerly wagonned his produce.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Borrowed 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. 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.