streetcar

CEFRA1

/ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A vehicle that carries passengers along city streets on rails.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • The city has decided to do away with the streetcar.

  • The streetcar is now certainly out of date.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

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In context

  • […]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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.