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BANDWAGON

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bandwagon mean?

• BANDWAGON (noun)
The noun BANDWAGON has 2 senses:

1. a popular trend that attracts growing support
2. a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band

Familiarity information: BANDWAGON used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BANDWAGON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A popular trend that attracts growing support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon

Hypernyms ("bandwagon" is a kind of...):

style; trend; vogue (the popular taste at a given time)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade

Hypernyms ("bandwagon" is a kind of...):

waggon; wagon (any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor)

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