Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Stagecoach   /stˈeɪdʒkˌoʊtʃ/   Listen
Stagecoach

noun
1.
A large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns.  Synonym: stage.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Stagecoach" Quotes from Famous Books



... for that. But it was the silent terror of despair, for she thought it was the man from whom she had made this great effort at escape. But he soon proved to her he was not. It was just the driver of the stagecoach, returned to see what had become of her. He had feared to find her stricken down in the road, and when he saw her clinging alone and in a maddened way to this tree, he made no bones of speaking to her with ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green

... of travelling from Paris to Lyons, which, by the shortest road is a journey of about three hundred and sixty miles. One is by the diligence, or stagecoach, which performs it in five days; and every passenger pays one hundred livres, in consideration of which, he not only has a seat in the carriage, but is maintained on the road. The inconveniences attending this way of travelling are these. You are crouded into the carriage, ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett



Words linked to "Stagecoach" :   coach-and-four, coach, stage, four-in-hand



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com