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Definition of Chariot
1. Noun. A light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage.
2. Verb. Transport in a chariot.
3. Noun. A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome.
4. Verb. Ride in a chariot.
Definition of Chariot
1. n. A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
2. v. t. To convey in a chariot.
Definition of Chariot
1. Noun. a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare ¹
2. Noun. a light four-wheeled carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chariot
1. to ride in a chariot (a type of cart) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chariot
Literary usage of Chariot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... And craze their chariot wheels: when by command Moies once more his potent
rod extends 211 Over cloud ii^tnt from before their face, and Temple, ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"OH, de good ole chariot swing so low, I don't want to leave me behind. O swing
low, sweet chariot, Swing low, sweet chariot, I don't want to leave me behind ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Your majesty, although I question you very closely, 1 fail to discover any chariot.
Verily now, your majesty, the word chariot is a mere empty sound. ..."
4. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Homer describes the chariot of Here as having a tire of bronze upon a golden ...
All the parts now enumerated are seen in an an- cient chariot preserved in ..."
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