wagon
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative spellings
- waggon (UK)
[edit] Etymology
From Dutch wagen, waghen, from Germanic *wagna-. Compare wain.
[edit] Pronunciation
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ægən
[edit] Noun
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wagon (plural wagons)
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pushed or pulled by human force.
- A child’s riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- (US, Australian, slang) A station wagon.
- (slang) A paddy wagon.
- A truck, or lorry.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Irish, slang, dated) An immoral woman, slapper.
[edit] Translations
cart
[edit] Derived terms
Terms derived from "wagon"
[edit] Verb
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to wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)
- (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.
[edit] See also
wagon in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʋa'ɣɔn/
[edit] Noun
wagon m.
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
wagon m.
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
[edit] Polish
[edit] Noun
wagon m.
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
[edit] Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
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| Nominative | wagon | wagony |
| Genitive | wagonu | wagonów |
| Dative | wagonowi | wagonom |
| Accusative | wagon | wagony |
| Instrumental | wagonem | wagonami |
| Locative | wagonie | wagonach |
| Vocative | wagonie | wagony |