charioteernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌtʃær.i.əˈtɪər/us/ˌtʃer.i.əˈtɪr/a person who drives a chariot
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Ancient history: before 500 AD
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- gladiator
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- Saturnalia
- the Bronze Age
- the Christian era
- the Iron Age
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Examples from literature
- Not long ago his own charioteer was slain in battle, and there is none equal unto the one slain that can act as my brother's charioteer.
- The Greeks even personified the sun as a divine charioteer driving his fiery steeds over the steep of heaven, until he bathed them at evening in the western waves.
- The charioteer, however, without taking any note of the force of those arrows, continued to go along the right.
- They drove as competing charioteers on the race-course.
- They usually carried two warriors, both standing, and the charioteer, or driver, was generally the companion or friend, and not the servant, of the fighters who stood behind him.