carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹ ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æɹɪdʒ
Forms: form: carriages
Etymology: From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond.
ref: 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6:
coordinate_terms: haulage
glosses: The act of conveying; carrying.
glosses: A means of conveyance.
examples: text: The carriage ride was very romantic.
antonyms: word: wagon
english: heavier vehicle designed to transport people or goods
translation: heavier vehicle designed to transport people or goods
hyponyms: coach
glosses: A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.
examples: text: When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad car.
raw_tags: of railway carriage
examples: text: The runner has a very low arm carriage.
glosses: The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.
examples: text: His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Characters”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: Cavett: What would it take – seriously – for a musician to be good enough to play in the Miles Davis bands? Suppose you're looking for a new guy.
Davis: Well, the first thing he needs do – whoever he is – has to have good carriage, you know.
Cavett: Meaning?
Davis: Meaning that they have to look like what they're going to play – the instrument.
ref: 1986 October 7, Miles Davis, The Dick Cavett Show:
text: She [Maya Angelou] towered over everyone and exuded a power that I had not recognized in anyone other than my mother. It was in her height. It was in her carriage. It was in her voice. And, I said to myself, 'This is woman to be reckoned with.'
ref: 2009, Cicely Tyson, Leading Women: Maya Angelou, season 1, episode 5:
text: He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 90:
glosses: A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
examples: text: I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe.
ref: 1655 April 21, “Mr. Ja. Nutley to ſecreary Thurloe.”, in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Eſq; […], volume III, London: […] the Executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas Woodward, […] Charles Davis, […], published 1742, page 399:
text: He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 407:
text: Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: One's behavior, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
glosses: The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
glosses: A shopping cart.
glosses: A stroller; a baby carriage.
synonyms: freight
freightage
cartage
charge
rate
glosses: The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and Carriage Paid To).
examples: text: And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:22:
glosses: That which is carried, baggage.
Hyponyms: sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: araba
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: barouche
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Berlin
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: booby
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: brake
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: brougham
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: cab
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: calash
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: caravan
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: carriole
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: carryall
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: cart
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Catherine
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: chaise
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: clarence
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: coach
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: coachee
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Coburg
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: coup
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: croydon
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: curricle
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: dennet
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: devil-carriage
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: dobbin
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: dormeuse
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: double
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: droshky
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: family
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: fiacre
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: fly
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: four-wheeler
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: gharry
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: gig
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Gladstone
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: hackery
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: hackney
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: hansom
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: hearse
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: horse-box
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: horse-fly
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: hutch
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: jaun
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Jersey
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: landau
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: noddy
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: palkee-garry
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: phaeton
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Pilentum
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: post-chariot
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Rockaway
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: rumbelow
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: shigram
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: sledge
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: sociable
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: solo
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: sulky
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: surrey
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: tarantass
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: unicorn
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: vettura
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: Victoria
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
english: person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn
translation: person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn
word: vinaigrette
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: vis-á-vis
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: voiturin
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: volante
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: wagonette
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: walnut-shell
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: whirlicote
sense: types of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
word: whisky
Derived terms: baby carriage
carriageable
carriage and pair
carriage bolt
carriagebuilder
carriagebuilding
carriage clock
carriage control character
carriage dog
carriage door
carriage dress
carriageful
carriage gown
carriage house
carriageless
carriagelike
carriagemaker
carriagemaking
carriage pole
carriage return
carriage trade
carriageway
composite carriage
condition of carriage
disappearing carriage
forecarriage
freight carriage
ginny-carriage
goods carriage
gun carriage
hackney carriage
horse and carriage
horseless carriage
invalid carriage
miscarriage
overcarriage
palkee carriage
quiet carriage
rail-carriage
railway carriage
recarriage
smoking carriage
stage carriage
steam carriage
travelling carriage
undercarriage
water carriage