A wagon is a vehicle with four wheels, usually pulled by animals or a motor, used to carry goods or people.
From Middle Dutch “wagen” or Old English “wægn,” meaning “vehicle or cart,” from a Proto-Germanic root for “to move or carry.” It is related to words like “waggon” and “wain.”
Wagons once carried entire families across continents; today, the word survives in kids’ pull-carts and “station wagons.” Even though the technology changed, the idea of a load-carrying family vehicle stayed attached to the word.
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