sleigh
/sleɪ/
sleigh noun: a vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller).
Noun
sleigh (plural sleighs)
- A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)
- Santa travels in a sleigh.
- In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed...2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29
Verb
sleigh (third-person singular simple present sleighs, present participle sleighing, simple past and past participle sleighed)
- To ride or drive a sleigh.
- To transport (cargo, freight) via sleigh.
- Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The...2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010
Adjective
sleigh (comparative sleigher, superlative sleighest)
- Sly.
Proper noun capitalized: Sleigh
Sleigh
- A surname.
sleigh meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
sleigh in Tamil
- பனிச் சறுக்கு வண்டி
sleigh in Marathi
- स्लीघ
sleigh in Bengali
- শ্লেজ, তুষারযান
sleigh in Telugu
- స్లిఘ్
More languagesFewer languages
- sleigh in Malayalam
- കുതിരവലിക്കുന്ന ഹിമവണ്ടി, ഹിമശകടം, ഹിമവാഹനം, തെന്നുവണ്ടി
- sleigh in Kannada
- ಜಾರುಬಂಡಿ
- sleigh in Odia
- ସ୍ଲିଗ୍
- sleigh in Nepali
- स्लेइघ
Examples of sleigh in a sentence
- Let’s roll, Mister Claus.” On our way to the sleigh, Santa stopped for a pause.
- A Christmas without children would be like a sleigh ride without snow.
- In other words, one Santa to load the sleigh and one to unload it.
Forms of sleigh
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sleighs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sleighs |
| present participle | sleighing |
| past participle | sleighed |
| past | sleighed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | sleigher |
| superlative | sleighest |
Origin of sleigh
From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.
Words formed from sleigh
Phrases with sleigh
Words that rhyme with sleigh
Questions about sleigh
- What does sleigh mean?
- Sleigh means a vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller).
- What is sleigh in Tamil?
- Sleigh in Tamil is பனிச் சறுக்கு வண்டி. See Sleigh meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sleigh?
- Sleigh can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sleigh?
- Sleigh is pronounced /sleɪ/.
- What is the plural of sleigh?
- The plural of sleigh is sleighs.
Words near sleigh in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sleigh (page history and authors); Sleigh (page history and authors); sleigh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleigh (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sleigh (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleigh (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sleigh (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleigh (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleigh (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sleigh (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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