tramcar

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noun

A streetcar.

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Meanings

nountramcar (plural tramcars)

plural tramcars

  1. A streetcar.

    A style guide of the 1930s for journalists on the Daily Express tried to bring trams upmarket by insisting they be called 'tramcars'.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 149
  2. A rail vehicle for carrying loads in a mine; a tram.

    We arrived at level 15 where we piled into a battery powered tramcar for a ten minute ride to the section of the mine we would be visiting. Packed into the tram we realized why the gigantic cooling and ventilation systems on the surface pumps 550 cubic meters of air into the mine each second.

    Synonyms: mine car, ore car

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA rail vehicle for carrying loads in a mine; a tram.

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mine carore car

More synonyms by meaning

nouna four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine

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tram
Broader
wagonwaggon

nouna wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

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streetcartramtrolleytrolley car
Broader
self-propelled vehicle
Also see
streetcartramtrolleytrolley car

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From tram + car.

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Translations

Bulgarian вагонетка
  • вагонетка (vagonetka)mine vehicle
Finnish kaivosvaunu
  • kaivosvaunumine vehicle
Cite this entry
APA

tramcar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tramcar

MLA

“tramcar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tramcar. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tramcar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tramcar.

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