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# carriage

«carriage» in Mova's school dictionary: **one car of a train (UK); in the USA it is usually called…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (carriage, carriages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A carriage is one car of a train (UK); in the USA it is usually called a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#m1)

2) A carriage is a vehicle with wheels pulled by horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#m2)

3) A baby carriage is a pram or buggy for a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#m3)

4) Carriage is also the cost of carrying goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

equal groups: passengers or seats in each carriage of a train; in history: people travelled in horse-drawn carriages; in stories: Cinderella's pumpkin turns into a carriage; in everyday life: the quiet carriage on a train

### examples

- The train has 8 carriages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x1)
- Each carriage holds 60 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x2)
- 2 carriages are empty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x3)
- How many seats in all the carriages? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x4)
- We sat in the first carriage of the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x5)
- The queen rode in a golden carriage pulled by four horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x6)
- The pumpkin turned into a carriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x7)
- Please be quiet in the quiet carriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x8)
- The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/#x9)

### note

Total = carriages × per carriage. Spelling trap: c-a-r-r-i-a-g-e (double r, then «iage»). In the USA a train «car», in the UK a «carriage».

### In the corpora

- [Move away from the doors into the carriage so people can get on and off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/12/)
- [A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/0/)
- [A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/22/)
- [A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/42-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carriage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carriage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.