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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
charioteer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By this time the poor charioteer was half fainting with terror, and he let the reins fall.
▪ Dhamma is the charioteer that drives the chariot along the road to Nirvana.
▪ Jules, entering into the charioteer spirit, drove standing up and the mare went along at a spanking trot.
▪ The charioteers of Tiranoc, famed throughout the land for their skill and daring, raced between their white marble cities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
charioteer

Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. Coachmen.

  1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ( Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
charioteer

late 14c., from Old French charioteur, from charriot (see chariot). As a verb from 1802. Related: Charioteered; charioteering.\n

Wiktionary
charioteer

n. A person who drives a chariot. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To drive a chariot. 2 (context transitive English) To drive someone in a chariot.

WordNet
charioteer
  1. n. the driver of a chariot

  2. a conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Great Bear and Orion at edge of Milky Way [syn: Auriga]

Wikipedia
Charioteer

A Charioteer is one who rides a chariot, especially in chariot racing.

Charioteer may also refer to

  • The Charioteer, a novel by Mary Renault
  • Charioteer tank, a post-war British tank
  • Charioteer of Delphi, an ancient Greek statue
  • The Charioteer of Delphi, a children's novel by Caroline Lawrence
  • Operation Charioteer, a series of U.S. nuclear tests
Charioteer (tank)

The Charioteer Tank, or FV4101 Tank, Medium Gun, Charioteer was a post-war British armoured fighting vehicle. The vehicle was produced in the 1950s to up-gun units of the Royal Armoured Corps continuing to use the Cromwell tank during the early phases of the Cold War. The vehicle itself was a modified Cromwell with a more powerful gun installed in a relatively lightly armoured two-man turret.

Charioteer saw limited use with the British army, but saw more extensive use with overseas users in Europe and the Middle East. Charioteers saw action in conflicts in the Middle-East.

Usage examples of "charioteer".

Presently sandalled feet re-echoed outside, and the two guardsmen entered with a strongly built dark skinned man in the helmet and tunic of a charioteer, with a whip in his hand, and a small timid looking individual, typical of that class which, risen from the ranks of artizans, supplies righthand men for wealthy merchants and traders.

The moment that he did, his cupbearer and his charioteer would carry him off to bed.

As one who checks a fiend-drawn charioteer, The falsehood and the force of him who reigns Supreme, and with the groans of pining slaves Fills your dim glens and liquid wildernesses: Why answer ye not, still?

The wedding schedule made this impossible, so Galba told his men to meet us at the grounds, giving his soldiers a brief chance to mingle with the charioteers and see the exotic animals.

They consisted usually of three young staff-officers, two famous gladiators, Apelles the actor, and Eutychus, the best charioteer in Rome, who won nearly every race in which he competed.

But I never quite knew what tender relations existed between this person and that: Agrippinilla and Lesbia seemed to have exchanged husbands at one time, and at another Apelles seemed somehow intimately connected with Lesbia and the charioteer with Agrippinilla.

Antigonus chariots fanned out, archers braced beside the charioteers, their quivers of arrows tied firmly before them to the front walls of the chariots.

This is such an obvious trick it is surprising not all the charioteers had learned it.

As soon as they reached this the queen ordered the charioteers to dig graves, and then calling upon the god of her country to avenge her, she and her daughters and the ladies with them had all drunk poison, brewed from berries that they gathered in the wood.

Remind him that they usually lose fighting the charioteers, but tactfully.

The Fiernan Bohulugi were lovely people, but they needed what the charioteers had, or some of it.

Surely there was hatred at least for Darak, straight and tall, the charioteer Bellan would never be again.

In the Hindu scriptures it is represented in the great conversation of the Bhagavad Gita between the Pandava prince Arjuna and his divine charioteer, the Lord Krishna.

The charioteers stripped their boots and cloaks and slung them down to the grooms.

Other charioteers and racers, and I suppose Gillan's archer, ranged down the table, interspersed with the beauties of the Warden's court.