wagon
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
Other meanings
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.
A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
A kind of
- wheeled vehicle
Kinds of wagon
- cart
- covered wagon
- ice wagon
- lorry
- milk wagon
- tram
- water wagon
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle Dutch "wagen".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “wagon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.