Wagons

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A large vehicle for transporting goods or passengers, typically drawn by animals or vehicles
2. A four-wheeled cart or trailer designed for carrying various items across distances
3. A structure with wheels used primarily for moving heavy loads or people, often associated with historical travel and trade

Etymology: The word "wagon" arrived in English from Middle Dutch "wagen," and its ancestry reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to transport," which also gave English "way" and "weigh." English already had its own term for the same vehicle, the Old English "wæġn," which survives in modern English as "wain," a horse-drawn cart or farm wagon. The two words are doublets, two forms of one ancestor that entered the language by different routes, and the Dutch borrowing gradually displaced its older cousin in everyday speech. "Wagons" is simply the plural of "wagon," so it names several of these vehicles at once. Its history is the same as the singular's.

Synonyms: carts, vehicles, carriages, conveyances, transportation