chariot

1. 1.

   a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage

   Broadercarriage
2. 2.

   a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome

   Broaderhorse-drawn vehicle

1. 1.

   transport in a chariot

   Broadertransport
2. 2.

   ride in a chariot

   Broaderride

Other forms of chariot

plural

chariots·

past tense

charioted·

present participle

charioting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chariot

What does chariot mean?

chariot means "a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chariot?

chariot has 3 syllables: char-i-ot. The stress falls on "char". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛɹiət/.

Is chariot a common word?

chariot is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.