station wagon

noun

1. an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.

station wagon

noun

1. a car with a comparatively long body containing a large carrying space, reached through a rear door: usually the back seats can be folded forward to increase the carrying space British termestate car

Word History and Origins

Origin of station wagon¹

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

Apparently the filmmaker tied him to the bumper of a station wagon, asked him to run two laps—and then kept driving, zooming in on his face to capture the tension of a runner at his limits.

From Outside Online

To my eye, the proportions are spot-on, particularly in profile where its shape falls midway between hatchback and station wagon that's been scaled up by 20 percent.

From Ars Technica

They rode off together in a blue station wagon, headed for Neshoba County where a church they intended to use as a “Freedom School” had been firebombed.

From Washington Post

I, meanwhile, lived in my station wagon and dated a 17-year-old.

From Outside Online

The company built shortened two-seat Mustangs, stretched four-door Mustangs, and station wagon Mustangs as prototypes that never reached production.

From Popular-Science

Two days later, FBI agents found the burned station wagon that the volunteers had been driving.

From The Daily Beast

The blue and white station wagon was in the driveway, and when he got in behind the wheel Mark was still with him.

From The Daily Beast

One especially frantic Hasid had wrenched his wife to death while fixing his station wagon in front of all nine of his children.

From The Daily Beast

I found instead a pearl-blue station wagon with pointed tailfins.

From The Daily Beast

No top boss of any status is going to be driving a Honda station wagon around.

From The Daily Beast

So there was some with us in our car, and then the station wagon with the additional ones.

From Project Gutenberg

The touring-car moved off down the road; the station wagon followed; Miss Farrar was alone.

From Project Gutenberg

I exchanged the brougham and the Goddard for a station wagon and a park phæton, as more suitable for country use.

From Project Gutenberg

Did you ever go back to look at that site or look at the station wagon?

From Project Gutenberg

When you ran behind the picket fence after the shots were fired, did you come near the area where the station wagon was parked?

From Project Gutenberg

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