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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minivan
noun
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▪ After a brief pursuit, the minivan stopped at Capitol and Copperfield, according to Beams.
▪ Boyle said Santos' southbound minivan slid into the northbound lane, where it collided with a Ford Bronco.
▪ Police ordered the driver to get out of the minivan but he refused, Beams said.
▪ Renault is the leader in minivans.
▪ Some soccer moms waited in their minivans and station wagons, but none had their radios tuned to the presidential debate.
▪ Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.
▪ The latest model of the minivan went into production last year.
▪ There was a blue Combi minivan at the head of the column.
Wiktionary
minivan

n. A small van.

WordNet
minivan

n. a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car

Wikipedia
Minivan

A minivan is a vehicle designed primarily for passenger safety and comfort, with three rows of adult-size seats, access through large sliding doors, and car-like handling and fuel economy. Minivans are purchased for their versatility and can often transport more people than a three-row sport utility vehicle, and also with better comfort, access, and fuel economy. Like most modern vehicles, minivans are typically of unibody construction with front-wheel drive. They also feature a short, sloping aerodynamic hood. They are usually taller than sedans or station wagons, affording a good view of the road. Minivans usually have removable seats to allow hauling of cargo on a flat floor.

Usage examples of "minivan".

There were still long lines of civilian autos, pickups, minivans, and SUVs inching slowly south toward the junction with Interstate 25, the main road to Albuquerque.

To human eyes, a Calvin cycler was a shiny metal coffin built for a minivan: to the botfly it was a muted tangle of EM emissions.

After they retrieved their baggage, the small group walked to the parking lot and loaded their belongings into the podlike cherry-red minivan.

Instantly, the blood drained from his round face, and he swerved the limo for the offramp, cutting between a semitruck and a minivan poking along in the slow lane.

The blue minivan crossed the runway and raced toward the line of maintenance hangars at Los Angeles Airport.

Cars rumbled around the circular drive in front of the Gordie Knutson Memorial Arena, a parade of minivans and station wagons, doors banging, exhaust pipes coughing.

His lights caught the reflections of families driving home together in minivans and sport utility vehicles.

The major attraction is Yellowstone National Park, where nature-loving visitors may learn about the wilderness by witnessing as federal bears, acting on instinct, rummage through Dodge minivans, tossing tourists aside in their quest for Hostess Twinkles.

She cut around the front of a Ford Americar and between two Honda minivans while I vaulted a silver Porsche Mako.

Today, cars had been banned, and replaced by pickup trucks and minivans and aluminum specialty wagons purveying T-shirts, pennants, mugs, buttons, pins, posters and food .

I ducked and weaved through the parking lot, using the height of the pickups and minivans to block us from their view.

As the cab pulled up behind a cluster of hotel minivans, Trevor watched the disembarking passengers with a scornful glare in his eyes.

The established, older part of Deer Lake was a Beaver Cleaver kind of town-comfortable family homes, dogs peeing on snowmen built by the children being trundled off to school in minivans.

But because I spend a lot of time back home in Michigan, I got tired of renting from Avis and broke down and bought a Chrysler minivan.

He eyed the road around the upraised burbling bottle to the visible astonishment of a passing minivan marked ST.