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Wagon Train

Definition: Wagon Train

Wagon Train

Noun

1. A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Wagon Train

Synonyms: caravan (n), train (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wagon Train

English words defined with "wagon train": caravantrain. (references)
Specialty definitions using "wagon train": full train load, fulltrain loadHORSE TRAINERroll-on roll-off, ro-rotrain load movement, trainload movement. (references)

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Modern Usage: Wagon Train

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Wagon Train (1957)

Utah Wagon Train (1951)

Wagon Train (1940)

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Wagon Train

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Books

  • From the desk of Truckee's C.F. McGlashan : his letters to Eliza Donner Houghton, Donner Party survivor, investigative report of a massacred wagon train, Truckee-Tahoe adventures and more (reference)

  • The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Wagon Train

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Photo Album: Wagon Train

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Epidemic curve for 54 symptomatic cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in members of a wagon train. Bar graph. Am J Med 71:759.Credit: CDC.

Living history exhibit of a pioneer wagon train.Credit: E. Stein.

Covered wagon and pioneer on Oregon Trail. NHOTIC 10th Anniversary, wagon train reenactment.Credit: John Craig.

Exhibit at the NHOTIC of a wagon train with one wagon stuck in the sand and settlers use a lever trying to free it.Credit: Unknown.

Ambulance wagon, flying Red Cross flag, travelling with wagon train.Credit: Library of Congress.

Wagon train on Main Street, in front of Hotel Western, Fallon, Nev.] / by R. Ham.Credit: Library of Congress.

Atlanta, Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street, with wagon train.Credit: Library of Congress.

Petersburg, Va. The first Federal wagon train entering the town.Credit: Library of Congress.

Jericho Mills, Va. Party of the 50th New York Engineers building a road on the south bank of the North Anna, with a general headquarters wagon train crossing the pontoon bridge.Credit: Library of Congress.

Richmond, Va. Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wagon Train

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  wagon train

131

  wagon train picture

12

  wagon train vacation

4

  wagon train photo

2

  attack on the wagon train poster

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wagon Train

Language Translations for "wagon train"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

karvan karrocash. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

открит товарен вагон (flatcar, waggon, wagon). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vonatcsapat. (various references)

   

Manx

  

famman carryn laadee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agonway aintray

   

Russian 

  

обоз (wagon-train). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

teretni voz (goods train). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yük treni (freight train, goods train, waggon train), marşandiz (goods train, waggon train). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Wagon Train

Misspellings

"Wagon Train" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wagontrain. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Wagon Train

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-n-n-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: agnation, ignorant.

-3 letters: antiwar, atoning, granita, ingrown, orating, ranting, ringtaw, trowing, wanigan, wanting, warning, wonting.

-4 letters: angina, angora, anoint, antiar, anting, aroint, atwain, awning, gitano, goanna, gratin, intown, intron, nation, natron, nonart, nonwar, noting, oaring, onagri, organa, origan, owning, rating, ration, rowing, taring, tawing, toning, towing, trigon, wangan, waning, wanion, wanton, waring.

-5 letters: again.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-n-n-o-r-t-w"
 

+3 letters: narrowcasting.

 

+4 letters: narrowcastings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wagon Train


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 67 6F 6E      54 72 61 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01100111 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#103 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0067 006F 006E      0054 0072 0061 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

576773818025484677580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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