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a
: a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting bulky commodities and drawn originally by animals
b
: a lighter typically horse-drawn vehicle for transporting goods or passengers
c
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British
: a railway freight car
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: a low four-wheeled vehicle with an open rectangular body and a retroflex tongue made for the play or use of a child
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: a small wheeled table used for the service of a dining room
the dessert wagon
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: a delivery truck
a milk wagon
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see also:
wagoned; wagoning; wagons
: to travel or transport goods by wagon
: to transport (goods) by wagon
Examples of wagon in a Sentence
Noun
Pioneers crossed the American Midwest in wagons.
He pulled his stuffed animals around in a little red wagon.
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Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
Visitors can stroll through acres of giant Tecolote ranunculus or take in the blooms from a tractor wagon.
—Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
Other towns have repeatedly fled rivers – Niobrara, Nebraska, hauled its houses by horse and wagon away from flooding in the Missouri River in 1881 and moved again in 1971.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
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Noun
The Canadiens earned their NHL-leading 20th circle-the-wagons win after the Ducks, who had 19, rallied to topple them 6-5 in a shootout 22 hours earlier.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
Visitors can stroll through acres of giant Tecolote ranunculus or take in the blooms from a tractor wagon.
—Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
Chris Bobek, who lives a couple of blocks south of Harrer, pulled daughter Sophie, 3, in a classic fire-red Radio Flyer wagon up to the complex’s main entrance.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
Other towns have repeatedly fled rivers – Niobrara, Nebraska, hauled its houses by horse and wagon away from flooding in the Missouri River in 1881 and moved again in 1971.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
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“Wagon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wagon. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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