From Middle English cariage, from fro-nor cariage, from carier ("to carry").

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɛɹɪd͡ʒ/

carriage

1. The act of conveying; carrying.

   Coordinate term: haulage

   • 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6:

     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.

2. Means of conveyance.
3. A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

   Hyponym: coach

   Antonyms: wagon

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (rail, British, Abbreviation of railway carriage) A railroad car
5. The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

   The runner has a very low arm carriage.

6. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Characters”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC ↗:

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

7. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 407:

     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.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:

     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 [...].

8. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
9. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
10. (British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
11. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

12. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, 1 Samuel 17:22 ↗:

      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.

• French: carrosse
• German: Kutsche
• Italian: carrozza
• Portuguese: carruagem
• Russian: (coach) каре́та
• Spanish: coche, carruaje

• French: port
• German: Gang, Haltung
• Italian: portamento, postura
• Russian: сто́йка

• French: chariot
• German: Wagen
• Italian: carrello
• Russian: каре́тка

• German: Frachtgeld, Fracht, Fuhrlohn