chariot

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage
  2. noun a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
  3. verb transport in a chariot

Etymology

From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”), itself borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

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