STAGECOACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stagecoach mean? 

• STAGECOACH (noun)
  The noun STAGECOACH has 1 sense:

1. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns

  Familiarity information: STAGECOACH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAGECOACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

stage; stagecoach

Context example:

we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles

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

coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand (a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver)

 Context examples 

They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)