Streetcar

Quick meaning: Streetcar is a noun meaning (Canada, US) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.

Meaning

(Canada, US) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.

Example Sentences

[…]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.

Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.

Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for streetcar

Depending on context, synonyms include tram, trolley.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tram, trolley, tramway, tramrail, railcar, train.

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