tramtram /træm/ ●○○ (also tram‧car /ˈtræmkɑː $ -kɑːr/) noun [countable] especially British English 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINtram
ExamplesOrigin:
1800-1900 tram ‘handle of a wheelbarrow’ (16-19 centuries), probably from Low German traam ‘long piece of wood’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- a tram tour of Universal Studios
- Artists' impressions show a tram that has more in common with the flat-faced, characterless light trains of the toy-like Docklands Light Railway.
- That special trams were run to enable people to view a solar eclipse?
- The tram stopped outside the Kings.
- The tram was coming towards her from Boar Lane.
- The 1925 Illuminations attracted an additional million passengers to the Promenade trams, bringing an extra revenue of £7,360.
- The cities with their canals and punctual trams are among the most pleasant and orderly in the world.
- The Gondola was the most graceful of illuminated trams, and was built in 1925 on the base of an old tram.
- The Hague is an immaculate city, where you're more likely to see bicycles and trams than cars.
THESAURUS► bus
Collocations a large vehicle that people pay to travel on: · There were a lot of people on the bus.
► coach British English a bus with comfortable seats used for long journeys: · Taking the coach is cheaper than the train.
► minibus a small bus with seats for six to twelve people: · The school uses a minibus to take teams to matches.
► double-decker a bus with two levels: · the red double-deckers in London
► articulated bus (also bendy bus British English) a very long bus that has a joint in the middle that allows it to go around corners: · Articulated buses have been used in Europe for many years.
► tram British English, streetcar American English, trolley/trolley car American English a vehicle for passengers, which travels along metal tracks in the street, and usually gets power from electric lines over the vehicle: · We waited at the stop for the tram.· San Diego has a well-used trolley system.
► tram American English a vehicle with many different parts for people to sit in, and which usually has open sides. A tram runs on wheels and is used to take tourists from place to place within a particular area: · The tram takes visitors around the backlot of Universal Studios, where many famous movies were once made.
► bus a large vehicle that people pay to travel on: · There were a lot of people on the bus.
► coach British English a bus with comfortable seats used for long journeys: · Taking the coach is cheaper than the train.
► minibus a small bus with seats for six to twelve people: · The school uses a minibus to take teams to matches.
► double-decker a bus with two levels: · the red double-deckers in London
► articulated bus (also bendy bus British English) a very long bus that has a joint in the middle that allows it to go around corners: · Articulated buses have been used in Europe for many years.
► tram British English, streetcar American English, trolley/trolley car American English a vehicle for passengers, which travels along metal tracks in the street, and usually gets power from electric lines over the vehicle: · We waited at the stop for the tram.· San Diego has a well-used trolley system.
► tram American English a vehicle with many different parts for people to sit in, and which usually has open sides. A tram runs on wheels and is used to take tourists from place to place within a particular area: · The tram takes visitors around the backlot of Universal Studios, where many famous movies were once made.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► electric
Phrases· However the route had the unique distinction in Blackpool of operation by horse, gas and electric trams!· Travellers very often notice that electric light and trams are brought into streets which as yet have no houses.· Blackpool was the first town to have electric trams, in 1885.· Horse-drawn buses and electric trams were only partly full, most people being at their places of work by now.· It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses.· In 1864 a horse-drawn tram service started, followed in 1895 by an electric tram system.
► new· What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train.
NOUN► depot· On the right is the old St. Annes tram depot, now a bus garage.
► route· This made route 30, now over 14 miles in length, the longest tram route in London.· This did affect the Croydon area indirectly, by the withdrawal of tram route 12.
► track· The old bridge was then demolished and the other new half erected in its place, with a second tram track.· They ran along the tram track for a brief while before rejoining the stream of Saturday traffic.
VERB► take· We take a tram to the Pier Head.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bus/tram etc depot
a vehicle for passengers, which travels along metal tracks in the street SYN streetcar American English- His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
- Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
- Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
- The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
- There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
- Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot.
- Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot.