noun
Dearborn
DEER-bawn
noun
1
A light, four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon once common in North America.
"They loaded the supplies onto the dearborn for the trip into town."
How to Use Dearborn
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old-fashioned light wagon, historically pulled by horses.
When to use it
Mostly historical usage today; the word survives more commonly as a place name and surname (e.g. Dearborn, Michigan) than as a vocabulary item.
Word Forms
Dearborns plural, dearborns plural
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Etymology
From an Anglo-Norman surname, originally meaning "of Arbornon".