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stage coach

stage coach is the alternative form of stage-coach.

Meaning of stage-coach

Noun

stage-coach (plural stage-coaches)

  1. (historical) A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.
    • Meronym: thoroughbrace
    Synonyms:
    stage, diligence

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Forms of stage coach

pluralstage coaches

Questions about stage coach

What is stage coach the alternative form of?
Stage coach is the alternative form of stage-coach.

Words near stage coach in the dictionary

  1. stage buses
  2. stage business
  3. stage busses
  4. stage carriage
  5. stage carriages
  6. stage coach
  7. stage coaches
  8. stage combat
  9. stage crew
  10. stage crews
  11. stage damager

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stage coach (page history and authors); stage-coach (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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