Definitions for wagon-lit

wagon-lit wa·gon-lit

Spelling: [French va-gawn-lee]
IPA: /French va gɔ̃ˈli/

Wagon-Lit is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in wagon-lit (-agilnotw).

Definitions for wagon-lit

noun

  1. (in continental European usage) a railroad sleeping car.

Origin of wagon-lit

1880-85; French, equivalent to wagon railway coach (lit bed (Latin lectus)

Examples for wagon-lit

Every wagon-lit in Berlin had been commandeered by the staff.

From the window of the wagon-lit Mrs. Shiffney looked at the two men standing together as the train drew away from the platform.

I hope the wagon-lit proved a compensation for your temporary effacement, laughed Stuart.

They stood at the door of their wagon-lit in the Côte d'Azur Rapide, searching the crowded platform for him.

The windows of the wagon-lit were plastered with warnings to be careful, to talk to no strangers; that the enemy was listening.

Just fancy, Stuart burst forth, the indignity of having to ask permission before one could keep a fox-terrier or a wagon-lit.

And he produced a batch of tickets, among which I saw coupons for reserved compartments in the wagon-lit.

You've made yourself pretty well at home in this wagon-lit, anyhow, taking off all your clothes and putting on your nightgown.

And the wagon-lit, booked to Syracuse, calmly left stranded in the station of Messina, to go no further.

As The Sparrow lay that night in the wagon-lit he tried to sleep, but the roar and rattle of the train prevented it.

Word Value for wagon-lit
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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