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# chariot

«chariot» in Mova's school dictionary: **A two-wheeled cart pulled by horses, used in ancient…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a chariot, chariots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A two-wheeled cart pulled by horses, used in ancient times for war and racing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#m1)

2) (literary) Any grand carriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in history lessons (Romans, Egyptians, Celts like Boudicca), Bible stories and myths. It tells the reader about ancient battles or races. Phrases: chariot race, war chariot, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (a famous song).

### examples

- The Romans raced chariots in the Circus Maximus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x1)
- Boudicca rode into battle in a chariot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x2)
- In the Bible, Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x3)
- The Egyptian king stood in his golden chariot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x4)
- Two horses pulled the chariot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x5)
- We made a model chariot in history class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x6)
- The crowd cheered as the chariots raced round the track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x7)
- The next morning they started in the same chariot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chariot/#x8)

### note

Countable: chariots. Pronounced CHA-ree-ot. The driver is a charioteer. An old word for history and stories, not for modern cars.

### In the corpora

- [For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/4/)
- [The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/17/)
- [And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1644/)
- [And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.390/)
- [And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.391/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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