WAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wagon mean? 

• WAGON (noun)
  The noun WAGON has 5 senses:

1. any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

2. van used by police to transport prisoners

3. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

4. a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

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

  Familiarity information: WAGON used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

waggon; wagon

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

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Meronyms (parts of "wagon"):

wagon wheel (a wheel of a wagon)

axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)

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

bandwagon (a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band)

cart (a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal)

chuck wagon (a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys))

Conestoga; Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie schooner; prairie wagon (a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century)

ice-wagon; ice wagon ((formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door)

lorry (a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides)

milk wagon; milkwagon (wagon for delivering milk)

tram; tramcar (a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine)

wain (large open farm wagon)

water waggon; water wagon (a wagon that carries water (as for troops or work gangs or to sprinkle down dusty dirt roads in the summertime))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Van used by police to transport prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

black Maria; paddy wagon; patrol wagon; police van; police wagon; wagon

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

van (a truck with an enclosed cargo space)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Big Dipper; Charles's Wain; Dipper; Plough; Wagon; Wain

Instance hypernyms:

asterism ((astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation))

Holonyms ("Wagon" is a part of...):

Great Bear; Ursa Major (a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

coaster wagon; wagon

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

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Sense 5

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 ("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 "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 "wagon"):

shooting brake (another name for a station wagon)

 Context examples 

Not by a wagon or cart: oh no! nothing of that kind could be hired in the village.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It won't be nice to-day, what of Tom quittin' an' nobody but Bernard to drive the wagon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing away from the river with their leiter-wagon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays,” was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Will you take me out in the trotting wagon with Puck?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were six of us, and we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Riding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But I'm glad you're on the wagon. Stay with it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Those who were unmounted jumped upon the leiter-wagon and shouted to the horsemen not to desert them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)