carriage vs car

car vs carriage

carriage and car both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carriage	Yes	No	No	No
car	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, car is a hypernym of carriage; that is, car is a word with a broader meaning than carriage:

carriage: a railcar where passengers ride
car: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad

Other hypernyms of carriage include railcar, railroad car, railway car.

carriage (noun)	car (noun)
a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses	a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
a railcar where passengers ride	a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
a machine part that carries something else	where passengers ride up and down
a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around	the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
characteristic way of bearing one's body	a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

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