- (also coach)(both British English)(North American English car)[countable] a separate section of a train for carrying passengers
- a railway carriage
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- railway
- full
- empty
- …
- get in
- get into
- get out of
- …
- door
- window
- in a/the carriage
- [countable] a road vehicle, usually with four wheels, that is pulled by one or more horses and was used in the past to carry people
- a horse-drawn carriage
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyc1- A horse and carriage awaited the happy couple.
- She arrived at the ball in horse-drawn carriage.
- She went for a ride in the carriage that afternoon.
- The queen waved from her ceremonial carriage.
- They could hear the sound of carriage wheels on the gravel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- horse-drawn
- open
- royal
- …
- ride in
- drive
- pull
- …
- in a/the carriage
- (British English) (also handling North American English, British English)[uncountable] (formal) the act or cost of transporting goods from one place to another
- £16.95 including VAT and carriage
- Orders are despatched within 28 days but allow time for carriage.
- a contract for the carriage of goods
- [countable] a moving part of a machine that supports or moves another part, for example on a typewriter
- a carriage return (= the act of starting a new line when typing)
- [singular] (old-fashioned) the way in which somebody holds and moves their head and body synonym bearing
- She showed her pedigree on her face and in her carriage.
see also baby carriage, gun carriage, hackney carriage, undercarriage
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French cariage, from carier, based on Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’.
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