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ss='hw'>car​riage
noun
car·​riage
ˈker-ij ˈka-rij
plural car​riag​es

Definition

  • a wheeled vehicle
    especially a horse-drawn vehicle designed for private use and comfort
    British a railway passenger coach
  • a wheeled support carrying a burden
  • manner of bearing the body posture //… that slender unrigid erectness and the fine carriage of head … — Willa Cather
    archaic deportment
  • the act of carrying
  • a movable part of a machine for supporting some other movable object or part //a typewriter carriage
  • chiefly British the price or expense of carrying
  • medical the condition of harboring a pathogen within the body //Clinical manifestations of enterovirus infections are protean, ranging from asymptomatic carriage to life-threatening illness. — Journal of the American Medical Association //Hospitals commonly screen patients in the ICU for nasal carriage of MRSA and use contact precautions with carriers. — Susan S. Huang et al.
  • archaic management
  • obsolete burden, load
  • obsolete import, sense
  • obsolete a hanger for a sword
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
equipage rig
Examples
  • //They rode to the city in carriages.
  • //I took the baby to the park in the carriage.
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
History and Etymology
Middle English cariage, carrage "act of transporting, conveyances collectively, vehicle, burden, baggage," borrowed from Anglo-French "transporting, means of transport, baggage train," from carier, charier "to transport, carry entry 1" + -age -age
carriage
noun

Synonyms

cas​ket
noun
cas·​ket
ˈka-skət

Definition

  • a small chest or box (as for jewels)
  • a usually fancy coffin
Other Words
  • casket transitive verb
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
bier box coffin pall sarcophagus
Examples
  • //bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died
  • //a small casket of jewels
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology
Middle English, perhaps modification of Middle French cassette
casket
noun

Synonyms

cas​ta​net
noun
cas·​ta·​net
ˌka-stə-ˈnet

Definition

  • a percussion instrument used especially by dancers that consists of two small shells of hard wood, ivory, or plastic usually fastened to the thumb and clicked together by the other fingers —usually used in plural
Illustration
castanets
First Known Use
circa 1647, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology
Spanish castañeta, from castaña chestnut, from Latin castanea — more at chestnut
caste
noun
ˈkast also ˈkäst

Definition

  • one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes
  • a division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race
    the position conferred by caste standing prestige //… art and religion have lost caste. — F. L. Baumer
  • a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy, and social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion
  • a specialized form (such as the worker of an ant or bee) of a polymorphic social insect that carries out a particular function in the colony //soldier castes for fighting enemy ants
Other Words
  • caste​ism ˈka-ˌsti-zəm noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
class estate folk gentry order stratum
Examples
  • //He was from a higher caste.
  • //a member of the upper caste
First Known Use
circa 1624, in the meaning defined at sense 1