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carriageable

carriageable adjective: capable of being conveyed in carriages.

Adjective

carriageable (comparative more carriageable, superlative most carriageable)

  1. Capable of being conveyed in carriages.
    • Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.1857, John Ruskin, “Lecture II”, in The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857, London: Smith, Elder and Co....
  2. Passable by carriages.
    • Except, however, between the lower Shire and Blantyre-Zomba, one is not encouraged to spend hundreds of pounds on the making of a carriageable road, because of the presence, in various tracts, of the tsetse fly, […]1895, Special Consular Reports, volume 12, United States: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 485

carriageable meaning in Tamil

carriageable in Tamil

வண்டிகள் செல்லத்தக்க

Forms of carriageable

comparativemore carriageable
superlativemost carriageable

Origin of carriageable

From carriage + -able.

Words formed from carriageable

Questions about carriageable

What does carriageable mean?
Carriageable means capable of being conveyed in carriages.
What is carriageable in Tamil?
Carriageable in Tamil is வண்டிகள் செல்லத்தக்க. See Carriageable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is carriageable?
Carriageable is an adjective.

Words near carriageable in the dictionary

  1. carriage return
  2. carriage returns
  3. carriage spring
  4. carriage springs
  5. carriage trade
  6. carriageable
  7. carriagebuilder
  8. carriagebuilders
  9. carriagebuilding
  10. carriageful
  11. carriagefuls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carriageable (page history and authors); carriageable (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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