carriage
Other forms: carriages
A carriage is a vehicle with wheels that's usually pulled by horses. In some cities, you can go for a carriage ride through the park.
A carriage generally has four wheels and is pulled by two or more horses, while the smaller cart tends to have two wheels and be pulled by a single horse. In Britain, you might hear people refer to the separate compartments of a train as carriages as well, and in some parts of the US it's used to mean "baby stroller" or "grocery cart." The Latin root is carrum, "two-wheeled war chariot."
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a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horsestypes:barouchea horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding topbroughamlight carriage; pulled by a single horsebuckboardan open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axlescarochea luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th centurychariota light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriageclarencea closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengersgharrya horse-drawn carriage in Indiagigsmall two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hoodhansom, hansom caba two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengerslandaua four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separatelypost chaiseclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used to transport passengers and mailstanhopea light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seatsurreya light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seatstrapa light two-wheeled carriagetroikaa Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreastfour-wheelera hackney carriage with four wheelsremisean expensive or high-class hackneystage, stagecoacha large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between townstype of:horse-drawn vehiclea wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses
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a railcar where passengers ridesynonyms: coach, passenger cartypes:chair car, drawing-room car, palace car, parlor car, parlour cara passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairssmoker, smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartmenta passenger car for passengers who wish to smoketype of:
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a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed aroundsynonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, strollertypes:bassineta perambulator that resembles a bassinettype of:wheeled vehiclea vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people
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a machine part that carries something elsetypes:typewriter carriagea carriage for carrying a sheet of papertype of:mechanismdevice consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
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characteristic way of bearing one's bodytypes:sloucha stooping carriage in standing and walkinggracefulnessbeautiful carriageawkwardness, clumsinessthe carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegantagility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimblenessthe gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimblelissomeness, litheness, supplenessthe gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supplegracelessness, ungracefulnessan unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expressiongawkiness, ungainlinessthe carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegantstiffnessthe property of moving with pain or difficultytype of:bodily propertyan attribute of the body
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Vocabulary lists containing carriage
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