English Explanatory Dictionary

wagon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
  2. 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. A shopping cart.
  4. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
  5. 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. Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
  7. Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of automobile”); (occasionally, loosely) any car, van, or light truck.
  8. Term of abuse.
  9. A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
  10. An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
  11. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  12. Buttocks.
verb
  1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  2. To travel in a wagon.
name
  1. A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

Pronunciation

/ˈwæɡən/ [ˈwæɡən] ~ [ˈwæɡnˈ] en-us-wagon.ogg /ˈwæːɡən/ [ˈwæːɡən] ~ [ˈwæːɡn̩] en-au-wagon.ogg /ˈweɪ̯ɡən/ [ˈweɪ̯ɡən] ~ [ˈweɪ̯ɡn̩]

Word forms

wagon wagons waggon wagoning wagonning wagoned wagonned the Wagon

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

railroad car car railway wagon railway carriage carriage railtruck truck coach estate NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise. 304 alley cat alleycat amorette amoret amorosa article Athanasian wench blowsabella bop chippy cocotte cockslut cockwhore crumpet cum dumpster cum guzzler cumhole cumslut cumwhore Cyprian demimondaine doxy drab eager beaver Essex girl flirt-gill floogy floosie floosy floozie floozy fornicator fornicatour fornicatress fornicatrix fuckstress Fulham virgin geebag giglot gillian gill good-time girl grim grisette harlot ho bag ho-bag hoe bag hoe-bag

Derived words

ballast wagon bandwagon battle wagon beach wagon bed wagon bogie bolster wagon bolster wagon box wagon broom wagon buck-wagon cantina wagon cattle wagon cat wagon chip wagon chuck wagon chug-chug wagon chug-wagon chug wagon cold as a wagon tire Conestoga wagon container wagon covered goods wagon covered wagon cracky wagon dead wagon democrat wagon devil wagon drag a wagon fall off the wagon ferry wagon fix someone's wagon flask wagon flat wagon forge wagon freight wagon freightwagon gag a buzzard off a gut wagon gag a dog off a gut wagon goods wagon gook wagon gypsy wagon hay wagon hitch one's wagon to hitch one's wagon to a star honey wagon Hoover wagon hopper wagon hurry-up wagon ice wagon jump on the bandwagon knock a buzzard off a gut wagon knock a buzzard off a shit wagon knock a dog off a gut wagon knock a skunk off a gut wagon ladder wagon mammy wagon match wagon meat wagon meat-wagon mineral wagon

Translations

Afrikaans: wa Amharic: ሰረገላ Arabic: عَرَبَة Arabic: كرّو Bashkir: арба Bulgarian: кару́ца Catalan: carro Catalan: cotxe Chechen: ворда Chinese Mandarin: 運貨馬車 /运货马车 Chinese Mandarin: 車皮 /车皮 Coptic: ⲁϭⲟⲗⲧⲉ Czech: vůz Dutch: wagen Dutch: kar Erzya: улав Estonian: vanker Estonian: veovanker Finnish: vaunu Finnish: vankkuri French: charrette Saterland Frisian: Woain Friulian: cjâr Friulian: cjar Galician: carro Galician: zorra German: Wagen Greek: άμαξα Greek: βαγόνι Ancient Greek: ἅμαξα Hungarian: szekér Hungarian: kocsi Icelandic: vagn Ingrian: vankkuri Irish: féan Irish: vaigín Italian: carro Japanese: 荷馬車 Korean: 짐마차 Latin: plaustrum Latin: carrus Latin: iumentum Latin: sarrācum Macedonian: ко́ла Macedonian: ко́личка Macedonian: а́раба Māori: wākena Navajo: tsinaabąąs Norwegian Bokmål: vogn Old English: wæġn Plautdietsch: Woagen Polish: wóz Portuguese: carro Portuguese: carroça Portuguese: vagão Romanian: car Romanian: căruță Russian: теле́га Russian: теле́жка Russian: пово́зка Russian: воз Russian: фурго́н Sanskrit: अनस्
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