Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A van for transporting or removing furniture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where all kinds of manufactured articles are collected and displayed for sale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK A
depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. - noun chiefly UK A van, especially a large removal
van . Originally pantechnicon van.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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All as if it had tumbled haphazard off the pantechnicon of civilisation as it dragged round the edges of this wild land, and there lay, busy but not rooted in.
Kangaroo 2004
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The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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But at the nearby Good Hope Centre, a pantechnicon-load of ballot boxes from the populous Mitchell's Plain district was offloaded only shortly after
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'An enormous removal van,' she had said, 'a real pantechnicon, and polluting what's left of our country air with clouds of the filthiest black diesel fumes.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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The D. C.4 was heavy, like driving a fully loaded pantechnicon after passing a test on empty minis, and the sheer muscle power needed to hold it straight on the ground and get it into the air was in the circumstances exhausting.
Flying Finish Francis, Dick, 1920- 1966
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A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed.
Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee
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Ethel and St. Nivel, having an unlimited command of money, ordered pretty nearly everything they were advised to take, with the result that we required a small pantechnicon van to take our combined luggage.
A Queen's Error Henry Curties
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One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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On landing in the street he wasted no time and nipped very neatly into the open back of the pantechnicon.
Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee
knitandpurl commented on the word pantechnicon
"Several muscular workers, dressed in overalls, had lugged the set from the back of a pantechnicon and into the drawing room."
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, p 346
May 10, 2010
NYDenizen commented on the word pantechnicon
In U.S., 'tractor-trailer'.
November 8, 2015