Meanings
plural smoking carriages
- UKrail transportSynonym of smoking car.
The trains then still had smoking carriages, and I would sit in these because their passengers seemed the friendliest - and I would smoke in the smoking carriage, because it seemed the done thing.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, PrefaceSynonyms: smoking car
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of smoking car.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
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smoking carriage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoking%20carriage
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