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A body style for cars in which the roof is extended rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position and serving the function of the boot (trunk) of a sedan or saloon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
Examples
- 1952 November, Should You Buy A Station Wagon?, Kiplinger′s Personal Finance, page 45, Trade-in values for station wagons have shown a marked improvement since the introduction of the all-steel body. In fact, a station wagon buyer need not worry about his investment′s depreciating any more than he would have to if he bought a four-door sedan.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: estate car, estate[Appendix:Glossary, station sedan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: car, auto, automobile, motor vehicle, vehicle
A vehicle (either horse-drawn or motorized) providing transport to and from a railway station for passengers and their luggage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beach wagon, wagon, estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
Narrower terms: shooting brake
From train station; station wagons were originally designed for transporting people and luggage between stations and country estates.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
stasiewa
— body style for cars
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Bulgarian:
комби
(kombi)
— body style for cars
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Catalan:
familiar
— body style for cars
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Chinese Mandarin:
旅行車 /旅行车
(lǚxíngchē)
— body style for cars
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Danish:
stationcar
— body style for cars
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Dutch:
stationwagen
— body style for cars
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Dutch:
stationwagon
— body style for cars
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Esperanto:
kombinaŭto
— body style for cars
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Finnish:
farmariauto
— body style for cars
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Finnish:
farmari
— body style for cars
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Finnish:
farkku
— body style for cars
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French:
break
— body style for cars
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German:
Kombi
— body style for cars
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German:
Kombiwagen
— body style for cars
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Hungarian:
kombi
— body style for cars
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Hungarian:
kombiautó
— body style for cars
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Icelandic:
skutbíll
— body style for cars
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Irish:
carr eastáit
— body style for cars
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Italian:
giardinetta
— body style for cars
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Italian:
familiare
— body style for cars
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Japanese:
ステーションワゴン
(sutēshonwagon)
— body style for cars
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Japanese:
ワゴン
(wagon)
— body style for cars
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Korean:
스테이션 왜건
(seuteisyeon waegeon)
— body style for cars
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Macedonian:
карава́н
(karaván)
— body style for cars
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Norwegian Bokmål:
stasjonsvogn
— body style for cars
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
stasjonsvogn
— body style for cars
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Polish:
kombi
— body style for cars
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Portuguese:
perua
— body style for cars
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Russian:
универсал
— body style for cars
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Serbo-Croatian:
karavan
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
carmelita
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
ranchera
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
rural
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
familiar
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
rubia
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
vagoneta
— body style for cars
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Spanish:
guayín
— body style for cars
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Swedish:
herrgårdsvagn
— body style for cars
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Swedish:
kombi
— body style for cars
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Turkish:
steyşın
— body style for cars
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Welsh:
car stad
— body style for cars
