CHARIOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chariot mean? 

• CHARIOT (noun)
  The noun CHARIOT has 2 senses:

1. a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage

2. a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome

  Familiarity information: CHARIOT used as a noun is rare.

• CHARIOT (verb)
  The verb CHARIOT has 2 senses:

1. transport in a chariot

2. ride in a chariot

  Familiarity information: CHARIOT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARIOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chariot" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Derivation:

chariot (ride in a chariot)

chariot (transport in a chariot)

charioteer (the driver of a chariot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chariot" is a kind of...):

horse-drawn vehicle (a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses)

Derivation:

chariot (ride in a chariot)

chariot (transport in a chariot)

charioteer (the driver of a chariot)

• CHARIOT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transport in a chariot

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "chariot" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

chariot (a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage)

chariot (a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome)

charioteer (the driver of a chariot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ride in a chariot

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "chariot" is one way to...):

ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

chariot (a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage)

chariot (a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome)

charioteer (the driver of a chariot)

 Context examples 

In doing so, I heard her say to the coachman, “Drive anywhere! Drive straight on!” and presently the chariot passed me, going up the hill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, I shan't say anything against them to YOU; and to be sure they did send us home in their own chariot, which was more than I looked for.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The next morning after my arrival, he took me in his chariot to see the town, which is about half the bigness of London; but the houses very strangely built, and most of them out of repair.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. Rushworth was quite ready to retire, and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son had selected; and very early in November removed herself, her maid, her footman, and her chariot, with true dowager propriety, to Bath, there to parade over the wonders of Sotherton in her evening parties; enjoying them as thoroughly, perhaps, in the animation of a card-table, as she had ever done on the spot; and before the middle of the same month the ceremony had taken place which gave Sotherton another mistress.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She desired me to get into the chariot, and to tell the coachman to drive slowly up and down a little while.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I owned that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The day being very fine, she was glad to come out of the chariot, which smelt (I had my head in it all this time) like a stable put under a cucumber-frame.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Six-and-thirty years ago, this day, my dear,” said my aunt, as we walked back to the chariot, “I was married. God forgive us all!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)