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wagon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *we??- (“to transport”). Cognate with Danish vogn (“wagon”), German Wagen (“vehicle; wagon”), Saterland Frisian Woain (“wagon”), West Frisian wein (“wagon”), Swedish vagn (“wagon”). Doublet of wain (inherited from Old English wæ?n) and related also to way, weigh.
Sense 9 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?wæ?(?)n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?wæ??n/
- Rhymes: -æ??n
- Hyphenation: wa?gon
Noun
wagon (plural wagons)
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. [from late 15th c.]
- A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
- An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.
- An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
- Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
- (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
- (rail transport) A freight car on a railway.
- Synonym: (Britain) goods wagon
- (chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
- (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
- (mathematics) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
- (slang) Buttocks.
Alternative forms
- wagan, waghen (obsolete)
- waggon (Britain, dated)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: wagon
- ? French: wagon (see there for further descendants)
- ? German: Waggon
- ? Japanese: ???, ??? (wagon)
- ? Polish: wagon
- ? Spanish: vagón
Translations
Verb
wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)
- (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.
Derived terms
- wagoning, waggoning (noun)
Translations
References
Further reading
- wagon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- wagon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga
Dutch
Alternative forms
- waggon (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon, which was also borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a????n/
- Hyphenation: wa?gon
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
wagon m (plural wagons, diminutive wagonnetje n)
- A train car, a wagon (railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train).
Derived terms
- goederenwagon
- personenwagon
- metrowagon
- tramwagon
- treinwagon
- veewagon
Related terms
- wagen
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: wagon
French
Etymology
From English waggon, from Dutch wagen.
Pronunciation
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /wa.???/
- (France, Switzerland) IPA(key): /va.???/
Noun
wagon m (plural wagons)
- a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)
Descendants
- ? Czech: vagón
- ? Italian: vagone
- ? Khmer: ???????? (vaagong)
- ? Lao: ????? (w? kong)
- ? Portuguese: vagão
- ? Russian: ?????? (vagón) (see there for further descendants)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ???????
- Latin: vàg?n
- ? Slovak: vagón
- ? Slovene: vagon
- ? Turkish: vagon
Further reading
- “wagon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch wagon, from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, From Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos, from *we??-. Doublet of wahana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?wa??n], [?wa?on]
- Hyphenation: wa?gon
Noun
wagon (first-person possessive wagonku, second-person possessive wagonmu, third-person possessive wagonnya)
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train).
Alternative forms
- wahon
Further reading
- “wagon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
wagon
- R?maji transcription of ???
- R?maji transcription of ???
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
- wogon
- -wagian (found in witharwagian (to flow back))
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wag?n?.
Verb
wag?n
- to sway
Polish
Etymology
From French wagon, from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va.??n/
Noun
wagon m inan
- (rail transportation) car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
- (colloquial) truckload
Declension
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wainwright
English
Etymology
From unattested Middle English *waynwrighte, from Old English wæ?nwyrhta, corresponding to wain + wright.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /?we?n?a?t/
Noun
wainwright (plural wainwrights)
- a person who builds and repairs wagons
Related terms
- wain
- wright
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