Wain Definition

wān
noun
A wagon or cart.
Webster's New World
The Big Dipper.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb

Common misspelling of wane.

As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new.
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Other Word Forms of Wain

Noun

Singular:
wain
Plural:
wains

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Wain

  • the Wain

Origin of Wain

  • From Middle English, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish/Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Compare the doublet wagon.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English wǣn, wægn wegh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Wain Sentence Examples

  • The hay wain, a type of horse-drawn cart, stands in the water in the foreground.

  • The constellation of the Great Bear, generally associated with Odin, is Karlswagen in German, and Charles's Wain in English.

  • Linda Wain investigates The rise in oil prices over the past six years makes UK house price inflation seem a paragon of stability.

  • Ptolemy catalogued 8 stars, Tycho 7 and Hevelius Of these, the seven brightest (a of the 1st magnitude, 0, y, of the 2nd magnitude, and b of the 3rd magnitude) constitute one of the most characteristic figures in the northern sky; they have received various names - Septentriones, the wagon, plough, dipper and Charles's wain (a corruption of " churl's wain," or peasant's cart).

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