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carriage house

carriage house

7 6.8
A small building beside an old house where people keep carriages or cars
  • noun
  • /ˈkɛrɪdʒ haʊs/
  • US
translation icon : casa de carruajes
  • The historical tour included a visit to the beautifully restored carriage house.
  • carriage house out back
  • carriage house apartment
  • converted carriage house

And now she let us use this vintage carriage house today to record in.

Examples

  • There was a stately brick carriage house out back behind carefully groomed garden paths.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • We parked our bicycles in the carriage house next to the main building.

  • Guests typically stay in the carriage house, which includes a living area, bedroom, and kitchen.

    Blog text (12)

  • Kiro's offered me his carriage house for a few months.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • To the rear of the mansion was a four-stall carriage house with servants' quarters upstairs.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Bored, he'd wandered into the old carriage house, which served as a garage.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Celia Robinson had married Pat O'Dell and had moved into his big house on Pleasant Street, leaving the carriage-house apartment vacant.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The caller was Celia Robinson O'Dell, who had been his neighbor in the carriage-house apartment.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The old carriage house was transformed into a cozy art studio.

Synonyms

coach house
vscarriage house
  • UK
6.8

A small building near a large house where carriages or cars are kept

is more generally found on older house grounds rather than elite estates
remise
vscarriage house
  • Archaic
9.9

A small building where horse-drawn carriages are kept

is the common name for such outbuildings on older house grounds

How Big

garage
614 1.0
carriage house
  • US
7 6.8
coach house
  • UK
6.8
carport
6 3.1

Surface Forms

carriage house singular
carriage houses plural

Morphology

carriage + house

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'carriage' (a vehicle) with 'house' (a building): it denotes a building for storing carriages. The compound pattern X-house (e.g. boathouse, doghouse) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Carriage house comes from a simple old picture: a small building next to the main house where people kept horse-drawn carriages. Because it was literally a 'house for carriages', the phrase now means 'a small building by a house used to store vehicles or turned into extra living space'.