estate car
(British) station wagon, family vehicle
Station wagon
A station wagon or simply wagon in
American,
Australian and
New Zealand usage and an estate car or just estate in
British usage is an automobile with a
body style similar to a
sedan (saloon in British usage) but with an extended rear cargo area.Certain cars with this body style have historically been called a
shooting brake, a
British term. A few models are referred to as a break, using the
French term; and kombi or combi, from the
German language term for this type, is also sometimes used (
VW's name for a Kombi is Variant,
Opel =
GM's continental Europe division uses the word Caravan,
Audi's wagons are called Avant). Another term once used by some American and Australian car makers is station sedan.
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estate car
Noun
1. another name for a station wagon
(synonym) shooting brake
(hypernym) beach wagon, station wagon, wagon, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
estate car