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say it: MIN-ee-van
minivan is a noun meaning "a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car". It is pronounced /ˈmɪniˈvæn/ — MIN-ee-van. It carries one recorded sense.
a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for minivan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.