Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The driver of a chariot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drive a chariot, or as if in a chariot; act the part of a charioteer.
- noun One who drives or directs a chariot.
- noun [capitalized] The constellation Auriga (which see).
- noun A serranoid fish, Dules auriga, having a filamentous dorsal spine like a coach-whip. It is a rare Brazilian and Caribbean sea-fish. Also called
coachman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who drives a chariot.
- noun (Astron.) A constellation. See
Auriga , andWagones .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
drives achariot . - verb intransitive To
drive achariot . - verb transitive To
drive someone in achariot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Great Bear and Orion at edge of Milky Way
- noun the driver of a chariot
Etymologies
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Examples
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For Plato, the soul was an Ideal, a kind of living idea, that existed in a state of transmutability—it could change all the time—until it entered the darkness of the body, becoming “the pilot of the body, as a charioteer is the pilot of the horses who pull his chariot.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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For Plato, the soul was an Ideal, a kind of living idea, that existed in a state of transmutability—it could change all the time—until it entered the darkness of the body, becoming “the pilot of the body, as a charioteer is the pilot of the horses who pull his chariot.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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My charioteer was a far better specimen of the present, than foundations of long walls, ruined temples, and statues without noses, can possibly be of the past.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The charioteer was a little diamond-headed fellow who straddled the neck of the dragon and moved the levers that made it go.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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For as the reins give no trouble to the charioteer, but the charioteer is the cruise of all the mischief through his not holding them properly: (and therefore do they often exact a penalty of him, entangling themselves with him, and dragging him on, and compelling him to partake in their own mishap:) so is it also in the case before us.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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The charioteer was a little, diamond-headed fellow who straddled the neck of the dragon and moved the levers that made it go.
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The charioteer was a little diamond-headed fellow who straddled the neck of the dragon and moved the levers that made it go.
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The charioteer was a Nubian, wearing bracelets of gold, as well as otherwise richly attired.
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When he had cut only a little, the Overseer entered the Judgment Hall, saying: "The two apostles tricked Jude and crawled under the barrier, and they shot back the bolts of the gate of the Chariot House and called a charioteer to take them to Heaven.
My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Caradoc Evans
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"Yea, the charioteer is the son of the King of Gabra, and it is
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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