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stagecoach Definition

stage·coach (stāj′kōc̸h′)

noun

a horse-drawn coach that formerly carried passengers, parcels, and mail on scheduled trips over a regular route

stagecoach Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • like: SB has decided she definitely likes stagecoach, so thats good.
  • have: When I was a boy, I can remember asking myself: ' what on earth have stagecoaches got to do with Christmas?
  • drive: To make extra money in the early days he sometimes drove the local stagecoach along the old plank road.
  • take: People got there by taking a stagecoach from the town center.

Adjective modifier

  • old: Stories have been told of old stagecoaches disapearing into the hole with all passengers drowned.
  • early: Another type of vehicle modified for multiple passenger use is the motorized stage, applied to the same tasks as the earlier stagecoach.

Modifies a noun

  • bus: Stagecoach Bus issued the following press release on November 8th.
  • driver: A: The stagecoach driver only has to look at four horses ' asses.
  • route: By 1700, London was connected to a number of towns by stagecoach routes.
  • service: Bus: Stagecoach service No 51, Jennings service No 629, from Exeter.
  • travel: For example, by 1825 steamships could offer people an alternative to stagecoach travel.
  • robbery: On 25th March, 1877, Bass took part in his first stagecoach robbery.

Noun used with modifier

  • horse-drawn: The name reflected their mail carrying business for the Post Office back in horse-drawn stagecoach days!
  • century: The height of Buntingford's prosperity was in the early 18th century stagecoach era.
stagecoach Quotes

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

—Hazlitt,William

There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse† Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

—Irving,Washington