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tonga

noun

Definition of tonga

as in chariot

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Recent Examples of tonga Hire a tonga and allow your tongawallah to guide you to Lucknow’s best spots. — Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2025

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Noun

Never mind that he was ejected from the chariot along the way; Nero was declared the winner.

— Vahe Gregorian July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
For example, last Wednesday, the game challenged me with a picture of a bronze sculpture that looked somewhat like a chariot.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 6 July 2026

Definition of chariot

Noun

The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.

— Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.

— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024

Definition of landau

Noun

Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.

— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022

Definition of phaeton

Noun

Already open in the development are a seafood market and restaurant, a bike and surrey rental service, the LA Maritime Institute and whale watching and harbor cruises.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.

— Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Definition of surrey

Noun

Passengers would debark at Country Club Station, near the intersection of what is now Cantrell Road and Kavanaugh Boulevard, and would either walk or ride in a buggy to the country club.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
The first cars looked like horse buggies.

— Aswin Saravanan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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