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Definition: Stagecoach |
StagecoachNoun1. A large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stagecoach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
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A stagecoach is a type of horse-drawn passenger and/or mail coach, widely-used before the introduction of rail and road transport, which stops periodically at so-called staging posts to take on fresh horses, exchange mail, and to give the passengers and crew food and rest stops.Today the most familiar image of the stagecoach is in western movies, but they were also used throughout Europe until they were rendered obsolete by faster means of transport. In many rural areas in Europe, especially those with very hilly terrain and which are therefore unsuitable for motorized transport, stagecoaches are still being used to transport hay, timber, etc.
A constant danger for stagecoach travellers was the threat of robbery by highwaymen or bandits.
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See also: coach Stagecoach (movie)
Stagecoach is also the name of a British transport company which operates several bus and rail franchises, and has faced some criticism over its alleged use of anti-competetive practices.
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Stagecoach is a 1939 Western which tells the tale of a motley group of strangers thrown together on a stagecoach which is attacked by Indians. It stars Claire Trevor, John Wayne (in the role which made him a star), Andy Devine, John Carradine Berton Churchill and Thomas Mitchell.The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht from the Ernest Haycox story "Stage to Lordsburg". It was directed by John Ford.
The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Thomas Mitchell won for Best Supporting Actor. Mitchell was also featured in Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Only Angels Have Wings in the same year, but it was his performance in this movie which gave him the Oscar.
This was the first of many films that John Ford made in Monument Valley, Utah, many starring John Wayne. Others included:
The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
- My Darling Clementine
- Fort Apache
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- Wagonmaster
- Rio Grande
- The Searchers
- Sergeant Rutledge
- Cheyenne Autumn
A 1966 remake starred, among others, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin and Bing Crosby.
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Stagecoach is a town located in Montgomery County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 455.Geography
Stagecoach is located at 30°8'34" North, 95°42'40" West (30.142858, -95.711232)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.1 km² (1.2 mi²). 3.0 km² (1.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.20% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 455 people, 155 households, and 137 families residing in the town. The population density is 154.1/km² (399.9/mi²). There are 162 housing units at an average density of 54.9/km² (142.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.48% White, 0.44% African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 2.86% from two or more races. 4.40% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 155 households out of which 38.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 80.6% are married couples living together, 5.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 11.0% are non-families. 9.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.94 and the average family size is 3.11. In the town the population is spread out with 26.8% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 31.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 93.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $68,750, and the median income for a family is $76,353. Males have a median income of $58,750 versus $37,614 for females. The per capita income for the town is $30,128. 5.8% of the population and 5.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 3.1% are under the age of 18 and 1.9% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stagecoach, Texas."
Synonym: StagecoachSynonym: stage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stagecoach |
| English words defined with "stagecoach": Dilly ♦ Stage carriage, Stagecoachman. (references) |
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Screenplays | Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west (Nuit américaine, La; writing credit: Jean-Louis Richard; Suzanne Schiffman) I get the guy who drove the stagecoach for one episode of Dr. Quinn (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
Tongue Twisters | Stagecoach stops. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stagecoach (1966) The Last Stagecoach West (1957) Stagecoach to Fury (1956) Eric Winstone's Stagecoach (1955) Stagecoach Driver (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Stagecoach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two women getting on stagecoach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Picadilly stagecoach boarding passengers to the exhibition at Hyde Park; coach in front of Pinchins & Co. bar and ale. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old stagecoach, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Stagecoach, possibly Adirondack Mountains, N.Y., or White Mountains, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Early years, with images of family, self portraits, landscapes and architectural interiors. Images of the Gottschos, Schroon Lake and stagecoach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wells Fargo Wagon" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Oh please let it be for me? <br> <br>This is a photo of a wells fargo wagon / stagecoach as seen in our 4th of July parade." |
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 | Horses pulling a stagecoach on the pavement and neighing. |
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| "Stagecoach" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "Stagecoach" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 58.82% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.29% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Stagecoach Holdings Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Stagecoach, TX (town, FIPS 69932) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stagecoach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | karrocë udhëtarësh (coach, diligence, landau), karrocë poste. (various references) | |
Arabic | مركبة جياد عمومية في خط نظامي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пощенска кола (mail car, mail cart), дилижанс (coach, diligence, mail coach, post-coach). (various references) | |
Chinese | 驿马车. (various references) | |
Czech | dostavník (coach, omnibus, stage-coach). (various references) | |
French | diligence (necessary steps). (various references) | |
German | postkutsche (mail coach). (various references) | |
Italian | diligenza (assiduity, care, diligence, industry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 駅馬車 , 駅伝 (post horse), 乗合馬車 , 乗合 (bus, fellow passenger, joint partnership, riding together). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のりあいばしゃ, のりあい (a fellow passenger, bus, fellow passenger, joint partnership, riding together), えきばしゃ, えきでん (post horse). (various references) | |
Korean | 역마차. (various references) | |
Manx | couch (coach). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agecoachstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diligência (application, cart house, demarche, diligence, endeavor, endeavour, expedition, industry, omnibus, sedulity, step, work, works), carruagem-coreio. (various references) | |
Russian | дилижанс (diligence, post-chaise, stage, stage-coach). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poštanska kočija (mail coach, post-coach). (various references) | |
Spanish | diligencia (alacrity, coach, demarche, diligence, sedulity). (various references) | |
Swedish | postdiligens (post chaise, stage-coach), diligens (mail coach, mail-coach, stage-coach). (various references) | |
Turkish | posta arabası (coach, mail cart, mailcoach), menzil arabası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поштова карета (chaise), диліжанс. (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "stagecoach": stagecoaches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-g-h-o-s-t" | |
-3 letters: cachets, catches, coaches, hostage, saccate, soccage. | |
-4 letters: accost, agates, aghast, cacaos, caches, cachet, chaeta, chaste, cheats, coacts, costae, sachet, scathe, scotch, socage, taches. | |
-5 letters: aceta, aches, agate, aghas, ascot, cacao, cacas, cache, caeca, cages, caste, catch, cates, cesta, chaos, chase, chats, cheat, chest, chose, coach, coact, coast, coats, cocas, cosec, coset, costa, cotes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-g-h-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: stagecoaches. | |
+4 letters: eschatological. | |
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