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A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sleeper, wagon-lit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: passenger car, coach, carriage
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
спален вагон
(spalen vagon)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Chinese Mandarin:
臥舖車 /卧铺车
(wòpùchē)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Czech:
lůžkový vůz
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Danish:
sovevogn
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Dutch:
slaapwagen
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Estonian:
magamisvagun
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Finnish:
makuuvaunu
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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French:
wagon-couchette
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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French:
wagon-lit
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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German:
Schlafwagen
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Hungarian:
hálókocsi
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Icelandic:
svefnvagn
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Irish:
cóiste codlata
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Italian:
vagone letto
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Japanese:
寝台車
(shindaisha)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Korean:
침대차
(chimdaecha)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Norwegian Bokmål:
sovevogn
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
sovevogn
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Polish:
wagon sypialny
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Portuguese:
vagão-leito
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Romanian:
vagon de dormit
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Russian:
спа́льный ваго́н
(spálʹnyj vagón)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Spanish:
vagón litera
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Spanish:
coche cama
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Spanish:
coche dormitorio
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Swedish:
sovvagn
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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Ukrainian:
спа́льний ваго́н
(spálʹnyj vahón)
— a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.