Tram

Quick meaning: Tram is a noun meaning A similar vehicle for carrying materials.

Meaning

A similar vehicle for carrying materials.

More Meanings

1. (US, rail transport) A people mover.
2. (US) An aerial cable car.
3. (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
4. (British, historical) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
5. (Australia, British, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
6. (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
7. (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.

Example Sentences

Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.

Lizzie and she got a dozen of large bottles and the loan of a basket and we got a currant pan and a half-pound of cooked ham in the shop next door and got on the tram for Whitehall.

Each morning, still-groggy early-bird park-goers stumble from the parking-lot tram and head straight to La Brea's cafeteria-style Express for a caffeinated pick-me-up or a meal to start the day.

The game Half-Life, for example, begins with a movie in which Gordon Freeman, the player's avatar, takes a tram ride through the Black Mesa research complex while a voice explains why he is there.

Word Forms

• trams
• tramming
• trammed

Synonyms for tram

Depending on context, synonyms include streetcar, trolley, tramway, ropeway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include streetcar, tramway, trolley, ropeway, bus, subway.

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