carriage
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)carriages
- a railcar where passengers rideSynonyms: passenger carcoachType of car, railcarKinds dining car, Pullman, nonsmoker, smoker, sleeping car, parlor carMember of passenger train
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horsesSynonyms: equipagerigType of horse-drawn vehicleKinds buggy, buckboard, troika, chariot, chaise, coach, hackney, cab, caroche, barouche +11 moreParts rumble, axletree
- characteristic way of bearing one's body“stood with good posture”Synonyms: bearingpostureType of bodily propertyKinds walk, gracefulness, awkwardness, slouch
- a machine part that carries something elseType of mechanismKinds typewriter carriagePart of lathe, typewriter
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed aroundSynonyms: baby buggybaby carriageperambulatorpramstrollergo-cartpushchairpusherType of wheeled vehicleKinds bassinet
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Translations
Noun wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power
- Spanish
- carruaje
- French
- carrosse
- German
- Kutsche
- Italian
- carrozza
- Portuguese
- carruagem
- Turkish
- araba
- Russian
- каре́та karéta
- Arabic
- عَرَبَة ʕaraba
- Chinese
- 马车 mǎchē
- Japanese
- 馬車 basha
24 more languages
- Dutch
- koets
- Polish
- kareta
- Swedish
- vagn
- Greek
- άμαξα ámaxa
- Korean
- 마차 macha
- Vietnamese
- xe ngựa
- Hungarian
- kocsi
- Portuguese (PT)
- carruagem
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 馬車 mǎchē
- Albanian
- qerre
- Catalan
- carruatge
- Czech
- kočár
- Danish
- vogn
- Esperanto
- kaleŝo
- Finnish
- vaunut
- Hebrew
- כִּרְכָּרָה kirkará
- Kurdish
- erebe
- Latvian
- kariete
- Norwegian
- vogn
- Romanian
- trăsură
- Scottish Gaelic
- carbad
- Slovak
- koč
- Slovenian
- voz
- Welsh
- cerbyd
Noun manner of standing or walking
- Italian
- portamento
- Korean
- 자세 jase
- Hungarian
- testtartás
- Finnish
- ryhti
- Scottish Gaelic
- giùlan
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See Carry.
1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. obsolete
David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage.— 1. Sam. xvii. 22.
And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem.— Acts. xxi. 15.
2. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
Nine days employed in carriage.— George Chapman
3. The price or expense of carrying.
4. That which carries of conveys, as: (a) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
5. The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
His gallant carriage all the rest did grace.— William Alexander Stirling
6. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.— William Shakespeare
Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. — Carriage porch Architecture, a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; — sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54