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equipage

/ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/

equipage noun: equipment or supplies, especially military ones.

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
    • Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 14
  2. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
    • At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199
  3. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
    • For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to...
    • Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 302
  4. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.
    • Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To furnish with an equipage.

equipage meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

equipage in Urdu

حشم, جلو, ٹھاٹھ

equipage in Malayalam

equipage
സന്നാഹം sannāhaṁ

Forms of equipage

Noun
pluralequipages
Verb
third-person singular presentequipages
present participleequipaging
past participleequipaged
pastequipaged

Origin of equipage

From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).

Words formed from equipage

Questions about equipage

What does equipage mean?
Equipage means equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
What is equipage in Urdu?
Equipage in Urdu is حشم, جلو, ٹھاٹھ. See Equipage meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is equipage?
Equipage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce equipage?
Equipage is pronounced /ˈɛ.kwɪ.pɪdʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of equipage?
The plural of equipage is equipages.

Words near equipage in the dictionary

  1. equiosmolar
  2. equiosmotic
  3. equip
  4. Equip.
  5. equipable
  6. equipage
  7. equipaged
  8. equipages
  9. equipaging
  10. equiparable
  11. equiparate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: equipage (page history and authors); equipage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); സന്നാഹം (Malayalam) (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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