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 →

2) (literary) Any grand carriage. tree →

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 →
• Boudicca rode into battle in a chariot. tree →
• In the Bible, Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire. tree →
• The Egyptian king stood in his golden chariot. tree →
• Two horses pulled the chariot. tree →
• We made a model chariot in history class. tree →
• The crowd cheered as the chariots raced round the track. tree →
• The next morning they started in the same chariot. tree →

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.
• The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues.
• And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
• And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.
• And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chariot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.