station wagon
family-sized automobile, elongated car
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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station wagon
Noun
1. a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat
(synonym) beach wagon, wagon, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon
(hypernym) car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
(hyponym) shooting brake, estate car
(part-meronym) tailgate, tailboard
station wagon (f)
n.
station wagon, (British) estate car
station-wagon