carriage
pronunciation
How to pronounce carriage in British English:
UK [ˈkærɪdʒ]
How to pronounce carriage in American English:
US [ˈkærɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a railcar where passengers ride
- a vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a machine part that carries something else
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
Word Origin
- carriage
- carriage: [14] Carriage is literally ‘carrying’. It is an Old Northern French derivative of the verb carier, in the sense ‘transport in a vehicle’. At first it meant simply ‘conveyance’ in the abstract sense, but in the 15th century more concrete meaning began to emerge: ‘load, luggage’ (now obsolete) and ‘means of conveyance, vehicle’. By the 18th century the latter had become further specialized to ‘horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying people’ (as opposed to goods).=> carry
- carriage (n.)
- late 14c., "act of carrying, means of conveyance; wheeled vehicles collectively," from Anglo-French and Old North French cariage "cart, carriage, action of transporting in a vehicle" (Old French charriage, Modern French charriage), from carier "to carry" (see carry (v.)). Meaning "individual wheeled vehicle" is c. 1400; specific sense of "horse-drawn, wheeled vehicle for hauling people" first attested 1706; extended to railway cars by 1830. Meaning "way of carrying one's body" is 1590s. Carriage-house attested from 1761.
Synonym
Example
- 1. I hired a carriage to drive there at once .
- 2. Twenty of them ride in a carriage intended for six .
- 3. A good measure of the environment is the spot rate for carriage on container ships ; it has crashed .
- 4. A printer has a carriage which holds and moves the paper .
- 5. It was like owning your private carriage and having a coachman who wore a silk hat .