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estate car

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

An estate car is a long car with a big load space behind the seats. Buy an estate car.

Americans call the same thing a station wagon, which names the same original use. An estate car carries more than most small vans and drives like a car.

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Definitions of estate car

  1. 1nounestate carA long car with a big load space behind the seats.B2

    “The estate car took a whole family and a dog to Cornwall.”

estate car is a car.

Also accepted in games: station wagon

Where it comes from

Named for carrying people and luggage between railway stations and country estates.

From estate; estate cars were originally designed for transporting people and luggage between railway stations and country estates.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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