A station wagon is a car with a long body, a door at the rear, and space behind the back seats.
[US]regional note: in BRIT, use estate car
station wagon in British English
noun
US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South Africa
a car with a comparatively long body containing a large carrying space, reached through a rear door: usually the back seats can be folded forward to increase the carrying space
British term: estate car
station wagon in American English
US
an automobile with more cargo space than a comparable sedan model, two or four doors, a rear seat that folds down, and a rear door hinged in various ways
Examples of 'station wagon' in a sentence
station wagon
It belonged to a little brown-haired woman wearing a brown coat who was sitting alone in the brown station wagon, in the driver's seat.
Pickard, Nancy NO BODY (1993)
The other, I was overjoyed to see, was a station wagon with a bumper sticker that said, `Happiness Is Being a Grandmother.
Pickard, Nancy NO BODY (1993)
He had a new station wagon loaded with duffel bags and suitcases.
Tapply, William G FOLLOW THE SHARKS (1993)
Preis changed rolls one more time to record the process of loading the body into the coroner's station wagon.