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/ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/ · noun
(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..
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.
[…]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.
Use streetcar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Streetcar means (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..
Common synonyms include tram, trolley, trolley car, tramcar.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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