minivan
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1.9
- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪˌvæn/
- US
:
monovolumen
- After packing everyone's bags, we loaded them into the spacious minivan for our family road trip.
- cars and minivans
- a minivan driver
And they said, we will give you a minivan and free gas.
- And they said, we will give you a minivan and free gas.
- We drove for like one hour in a big minivan in the the Rockies.
- Notable here is that the station wagons first swell into minivans and then into speedboats.
- One of the last jobs I had, I used to drive a minivan for troubled kids.
- I think one of them was let's all pile into the minivan and get some frozen yogurt.
- My neighbor drove by with the minivan and we shoved the emu.
- Well, my mom had a had a a minivan that had like those twinkly lights.
- Must have your own car, probably a minivan.
- They the only choices they had convertible or minivan.
- My dad loaded my brother and I into a dark green minivan.
- The, the, the car, the weirdly, the car I got I got the most reaction out of was when I was driving a minivan.
- And Mark's like, OK, you drank and then you started throwing up violently in Chucks moms cars all over the car, the minivan.
- But what if you went there that day because you are you just had your third child and you want your wife to have something that's not a minivan.
Examples
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We can stay until six, perhaps five-thirty, before catching the last minivan to the ferry.
Academic text (2007) -
This was the first minivan to have a power sliding door.
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And they said, we will give you a minivan and free gas.
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Well, I'll say that years of being minivan driver, I think, got to us.
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Or you can get a minivan.
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I grab the keys and walk Mom to her minivan.
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Plus, Patel test drove a minivan last week anyway.
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Chili follows Martin over to the minivan and opens the door for him.
Fiction book (1995) -
I held onto the door handle as our minivan lurched down the road on worn-out shocks.
Fiction book (2001) -
After they explained their plight, everyone piled into the family's minivan and headed toward the nearest town.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A medium-sized vehicle with a closed back used to carry goods or people
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2.5
A bus or train that carries many people
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2.3
A van that carries people rather than goods
How Spacious
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2.7
676
1.0
- US
80
1.9
- US
66
2.9
- US
77
2.4
- US
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Minivan is made of mini ('small') and van ('a vehicle for people or things'). So a minivan literally means a 'small van', which is why it refers to a compact, family-friendly passenger vehicle with room for people and luggage.