Meaning

noun a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage

noun a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome

verb transport in a chariot

originFrom Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”), itself borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0