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Definition of Carriage
1. Noun. A railcar where passengers ride.
Generic synonyms: Car, Railcar, Railroad Car, Railway Car
Specialized synonyms: Buffet Car, Diner, Dining Car, Dining Compartment, Nonsmoker, Nonsmoking Car, Chair Car, Drawing-room Car, Palace Car, Parlor Car, Parlour Car, Pullman, Pullman Car, Sleeper, Sleeping Car, Wagon-lit, Smoker, Smoking Car, Smoking Carriage, Smoking Compartment
Group relationships: Passenger Train
2. Noun. A vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses.
Terms within: Axletree, Rumble
Specialized synonyms: Barouche, Brougham, Buckboard, Buggy, Roadster, Cab, Cabriolet, Caroche, Chaise, Shay, Chariot, Clarence, Coach, Coach-and-four, Four-in-hand, Droshky, Drosky, Gharry, Gig, Hackney, Hackney Carriage, Hackney Coach, Hansom, Hansom Cab, Landau, Post Chaise, Stanhope, Surrey, Trap, Troika
Generic synonyms: Horse-drawn Vehicle
3. Noun. Characteristic way of bearing one's body. "Stood with good posture"
Generic synonyms: Bodily Property
Specialized synonyms: Manner Of Walking, Walk, Slouch, Gracefulness, Awkwardness, Clumsiness
Derivative terms: Bear, Carry, Postural
4. Noun. A machine part that carries something else.
Generic synonyms: Mechanism
Specialized synonyms: Typewriter Carriage
5. Noun. A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around.
Specialized synonyms: Bassinet
Generic synonyms: Wheeled Vehicle
Derivative terms: Push
Definition of Carriage
1. n. That which is carried; burden; baggage.
Definition of Carriage
1. Noun. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. ¹
2. Noun. (British) A rail car, ''esp.'' designed for the conveyance of passengers. ¹
3. Noun. (rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others. ¹
5. Noun. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper. ¹
6. Noun. (US New England) A shopping cart. ¹
7. Noun. (British) A baby stroller; a baby carriage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carriage
1. a wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriage
Literary usage of Carriage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"In these cases the payment of the toll by one traveller hiring the carriage was
meant not to exempt any other traveller who happens to hire the same ..."
2. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"4, enacts that, " every carriage with two or more wheels which shall be used for
the purpose of standing or plying for hire in any public street or road at ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The carriage belonged to a livery stable keeper and was driven by a person in
... It was an open carriage, with the seat of the driver about two feet above ..."
4. The Science of Railways ...: With Illustrations of the Inception, Growth and by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1894)
"carriage in Bengal—Frontispiece. carriage in Santos, carriage in Corea, . ...
carriage in Japan, carriage in Rome, - carriage In the Desert, carriage in ..."
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