box van

English

LNER 10 ton box van at Portsmouth Dockyard

Noun

box van (plural box vans)

1. A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.

   Synonyms: (chiefly in the US) box truck, (chiefly in Canada) cube van, cube truck

2. (rail transport, UK, Australia) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

   Synonyms: (formal) covered goods wagon, box wagon, (sense 2) goods van, (American English) van, boxcar

Hyponyms

• (truck) Luton van

Translations

truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area

• Dutch: bakwagen (nl)
• German: Kofferaufbau
• Norwegian: skapbil, skåpbil (only Nynorsk)

boxcar — see boxcar

References

• “box van”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• navbox