Pronunciation Noun
carriage
- The act of conveying; carrying.
- Means of conveyance.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- (British) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
- (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters,"
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 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, 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 [...].
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (US, New England) A shopping cart.
- (British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
- The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).
- (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Samuel 17:22 ↗:
- French: carrosse
- German: Kutsche
- Italian: carrozza
- Portuguese: carruagem
- Russian: (coach) каре́та
- Spanish: coche, carruaje
- French: wagon, voiture
- German: Wagen, Wagon
- Italian: vagone, carrozza
- Portuguese: carruagem (passenger), vagão (cargo) (both cargo and passenger car in Brazilian Portuguese)
- Russian: ваго́н
- Spanish: coche, vagón
- German: Gang, Haltung
- Italian: portamento, postura
- Russian: сто́йка
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