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boxcar

adj · noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Extremely large.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gigantic, enormous, ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: covered goods wagon, goods van, box van, van, house car

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: atrophic scar

4

verb

Meaning 4

To reduce to a boxcar function.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: mathematics, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: freight car

Narrower terms: stockcar

History

Etymology

From box + car.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: skříňový vůz — enclosed goods wagon
  • Czech: uzavřený vůz — enclosed goods wagon
  • Czech: krytý vůz — enclosed goods wagon
  • Estonian: kaubavagun — enclosed goods wagon
  • Finnish: umpivaunu — enclosed goods wagon
  • Polish: furgonetka — enclosed goods wagon
  • Russian: това́рный ваго́н (továrnyj vagón) — enclosed goods wagon
  • Spanish: furgón — enclosed goods wagon
  • Spanish: vagón — enclosed goods wagon
  • Swedish: sluten godsvagn — enclosed goods wagon
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