station wagon
noun
: an automobile that has a passenger compartment which extends to the back of the vehicle, that has no trunk, that has one or more rear seats which can be folded down to make space for light cargo, and that has a tailgate or liftgate
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Porsche’s last decade has seen the company defy trends and venture into the world of station wagons when most other carmakers were leaving the category behind with long-roof versions of both the Panamera and Taycan.
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Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
Everything—from the squat, one-story structure to the station wagon parked outside—had been coated in the same uneven layer of white paint, as if someone had tried, hurriedly, to erase it from the landscape.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
To those of us who grew up through the ’80s, ’90s, and Y2K, the idea of Volvo not selling station wagons is deeply bizarre.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
Once a mainstream mainstay, only six manufacturers offer vehicles, also rarely called station wagons, but just wagons.
—James Raia, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
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Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
Everything—from the squat, one-story structure to the station wagon parked outside—had been coated in the same uneven layer of white paint, as if someone had tried, hurriedly, to erase it from the landscape.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
To those of us who grew up through the ’80s, ’90s, and Y2K, the idea of Volvo not selling station wagons is deeply bizarre.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
Once a mainstream mainstay, only six manufacturers offer vehicles, also rarely called station wagons, but just wagons.
—James Raia, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for station wagon
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“Station wagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/station%20wagon. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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