station wagon

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English

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A station wagon
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Etymology

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From train station; station wagons were originally designed for transporting people and luggage between stations and country estates.

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station wagon (plural station wagons)

  1. (obsolete) A vehicle providing transport to and from a railway station.
  2. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, automotive) A body style for cars in which the roof is extended rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position and serving the function of the boot (trunk) of a sedan / saloon.
    • 1952 November, Should You Buy A Station Wagon?, Kiplinger′s Personal Finance, page 45,
      Trade-in values for station wagons have shown a marked improvement since the introduction of the all-steel body. In fact, a station wagon buyer need not worry about his investment′s depreciating any more than he would have to if he bought a four-door sedan.
    • 1983, Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree, published 1992, page 164:
      The Negro was lying in a ditch on the left side of the road, face down, headed west, and the body more or less parallel to the road and about a car length behind the station wagon and a car length in front of Price′s car.
    • 2005, Jim Hinckley, The Big Book of Car Culture: The Armchair Guide to Automotive Americana, page 184:
      The prosperity of the postwar years, the baby boom, and the birth of suburbia sent the demand for station wagons soaring. As a result, by 1952 almost every manufacturer offered a station wagon model.
    • 2007, Wendy Lewis, See Australia and Die: Tales of Misadventure Down Under, unnumbered page:
      They rushed him to nearby Coledale Hospital in the back of a station wagon where doctors were standing by.
    • 2011, Balaji Rao, From India to Australia, unnumbered page:
      Two Johns (John Hoban and John Groutsch) came to Essendon airport in their Holden station wagon to take me back to Tocumwal for an interview.

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