What is another word for tramcars?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈamkɑːz] (IPA)

Tramcars, also known as streetcars, trolley cars or simply trams, are a type of rail vehicle that run on tracks laid in streets. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe these vehicles, including cable cars, light rail, and electric railways. Cable cars use a cable or rope to pull the car along the track, while light rail refers to a modern, sleek version of the traditional streetcar. Electric railways are powered by overhead wires, and are often faster and more efficient than traditional trams. Other synonyms for tramcars include interurbans, PCCs (Presidents' Conference Committee cars), and heritage trams, which are older models that have been restored for nostalgic or tourist purposes.

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What are the hypernyms for Tramcars?

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    railcar, streetcar, Light rail car, Mass transit vehicle, public transportation vehicle.

Usage examples for Tramcars

They would stay in a street where there were tramcars and noises, and they would frequent museums.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
The tramcars passed now only every ten minutes.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Where are there not tramcars now?
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt

Famous quotes with Tramcars

  • I call to mind a winter landscape in Amsterdam — a flat foreground of waste land, with here and there stacks of timber, like the huts of a camp of some very miserable tribe; the long stretch of the Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, because... their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts. In the distance, beyond the waste ground, and running parallel with the line of ships, a line of brown, warm-toned houses seemed bowed under snow-laden roofs. From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.
    Joseph Conrad

Related words: tramcar, tramways, trams, tramway, trolley car

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