STATION WAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does station wagon mean? 

• STATION WAGON (noun)
  The noun STATION WAGON has 1 sense:

1. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

  Familiarity information: STATION WAGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATION WAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

beach waggon; beach wagon; estate car; station waggon; station wagon; waggon; wagon

Hypernyms ("station wagon" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Meronyms (parts of "station wagon"):

tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "station wagon"):

shooting brake (another name for a station wagon)

 Context examples 

On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)