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carman

carman noun: a person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.

Noun

carman (plural carmen)

  1. (obsolete) A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.
    • Nine main depots and a number of sub-depots are involved and the carmen, after leaving their depots, were entirely under a controller's instructions.1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 337
    • In this book, journalist and researcher Christer Holmgren explains why the murders were never cleared up and names the East End carman Charles Lechmere as the culprit behind both series of murders.2021, Christer Holmgren, Cutting Point: Solving the Jack the Ripper and the Thames Torso Murders

Proper noun capitalized: Carman

Carman (countable and uncountable, plural Carmans)

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Pembina Valley Region, southern Manitoba, Canada.
  3. A township and census-designated place therein, in Henderson County, Illinois, United States.

carman meaning in Tamil

carman in Tamil

விசைக்கல வலவர், மோட்டார் ஓட்டுபவர், வண்டியோட்டி

Examples of carman in a sentence

  • Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.
  • Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a laywoman.
  • Carmen gave her a toothy grin and binked her on the nose with a forefinger.

All 11 example sentences with carman

Forms of carman

Noun
pluralcarmen
alternative formcar man
Proper noun
pluralCarmans

Origin of carman

From car + -man.

* From Old Norse karmann. * A variant of Charman. * An alteration of Karman. * An Americanization of Kormann, Kornmann, or some other like-sounding surname. * From Slovene Čarman.

Words formed from carman

Questions about carman

What does carman mean?
Carman means a person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.
What is carman in Tamil?
Carman in Tamil is விசைக்கல வலவர், மோட்டார் ஓட்டுபவர், வண்டியோட்டி. See Carman meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is carman?
Carman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of carman?
The plural of carman is carmen.

Words near carman in the dictionary

  1. carmakers
  2. carmaking
  3. carmalol
  4. carmalols
  5. carmalum
  6. carman
  7. Carmania
  8. Carmanian
  9. Carmanians
  10. Carmanova
  11. Carmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carman (page history and authors); Carman (page history and authors); carman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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