minivan

noun

mini·​van ˈmi-nē-ˌvan How to pronounce minivan (audio)
: a small passenger van

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The vehicles to be equipped include yellow school buses, minivans, Ford Transits and smaller vehicles that are a part of First Student's First Alt division (sedans, SUVs, minivans, wheel-chair accessible vehicles). Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 The sun was getting ready to rise over a rural lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, when a sheriff's deputy shined his flashlight inside Ryan Borgwardt's minivan parked just yards away from the water's edge. Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025 Federal safety regulators are investigating nearly 300,000 Chrysler minivans over reports of steering malfunctions that officials said could lead to a crash. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025 The three of them, dressed in flip-flops and T-shirts, were wandering the streets downtown when a woman in a minivan pulled over to offer them a ride. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for minivan

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First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of minivan was in 1959

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“Minivan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minivan. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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minivan

noun
mini·​van ˈmin-ē-ˌvan How to pronounce minivan (audio)
: a small passenger van

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