BANDWAGON

bandwagon

(noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; “the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade”

bandwagon

(noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support; “when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bandwagon (plural bandwagons)

A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade.

(figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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