"box van" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: box vans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} box van (plural box vans)
  1. A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area. Categories (topical): Vehicles Synonyms: box truck (english: chiefly in the US), cube van (english: chiefly in Canada), cube truck Translations (truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area): bakwagen (Dutch), Kofferaufbau (German), skapbil (Norwegian), skåpbil [Nynorsk] (Norwegian)
    Sense id: en-box_van-en-noun-YhpS3fwC Disambiguation of 'truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area': 71 29
  2. (rail transport, UK, Australia) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door. Tags: Australia, UK Categories (topical): Rail transportation Synonyms: covered goods wagon [formal], box wagon, goods van (english: sense 2), van (english: American English), boxcar Hyponyms (truck): Luton van
    Sense id: en-box_van-en-noun-A8vzsOe3 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport Disambiguation of 'truck': 37 63

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for box van meaning in English (2.5kB)

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