carriages

noun

plural of carriage
1
as in stagecoaches
a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers a museum with a large collection of beautiful, old carriages

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2
as in stances
a general way of holding the body her Ladyship's carriage is upright and regal

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Recent Examples of carriages Three carriages overturned, seriously injuring two people and causing minor injuries for 18 others. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 Images posted to social media appeared to show the train carriages on their sides, with people standing on them. — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Passengers board meticulously restored Gran Confort carriages, which date back to the 1970s and are emblems of Modern Italian design, with velvet-upholstered seats and panoramic windows. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2026 The kids enjoyed jaywalking, but having to dodge bicyclists and horse carriages. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The annual review noted that visitors dropped to Windsor Castle and the Royal Mews, a working stables that houses the coaches and carriages used by the royal family. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 29 July 2026 Horse carriages were the main transportation method in the world. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026 Now the carriages are no longer a necessity but an indulgence aimed at tourists. — Andrea Sachs The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026 But the union says the safety conversation shouldn't end with horse carriages. — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriages
  1. chariots
  2. stances
  3. cabs
  4. postures
  5. rigs
  6. attitudes
Noun
  • But, that could be accomplished with portable palanquins and chariots, Namboothiri said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Suddenly, the servant saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around them – representing spiritual forces of divine protection.
    — Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
Definition of chariots
Noun
  • Talking policy stances to Iowa fairgoers eating pork chops on sticks.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, his antisemitic and anti-Israeli stances, or his communist leanings.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of stances
Noun
  • In the same way that London is more than just red buses, black cabs, and a rather large parliamentary clock, England is more than just the vigor of London.
    — Katie Silcox, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026
  • They, like so many other performance pickups—including the Shelby F-150 Baja Raptor from last month—have double (or, as they’re sometimes known, extended) cabs.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 July 2026
Definition of cabs
Noun
  • That is a chain of very different tasks and different security postures.
    — Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • This meant moving outside of the traditional tableau of White House photojournalism—an orator on a pedestal—to show members of the press in postures of alertness or repose.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Definition of postures
Noun
  • Other truck drivers will also begin sharing lanes with autonomous rigs.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Charter boats trolling big bucktails or even umbrella rigs have targeted large, post-spawn fish for decades.
    — Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of rigs
Noun
  • The home is in a historic neighborhood that reflected post-World War II Los Angeles’ embrace of mid-century modern building design and mid-century, West Coast modern attitudes about race, class and equality.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The cast share the characters’ disparate attitudes toward queerness.
    — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of attitudes

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