tram
noun /træm/
/træm/
(also tramcar
(both British English) /ˈtræmkɑː(r)/
/ˈtræmkɑːr/
)(US English streetcar, trolley)
- a vehicle driven by electricity, that runs on rails along the streets of a town and carries passengers
enlarge image- a tram route
- There is easy access to the centre of the city by tram.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- catch
- take
- miss
- …
- run
- rattle
- stop
- …
- network
- service
- system
- …
- by tram
- on a/the tram
- tram from
- …
Word Originearly 16th cent. (denoting a shaft of a barrow; also a car used in coal mines): from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame ‘beam, barrow shaft’. In the early 19th cent. the word denoted the parallel wheel tracks used in a mine, on which the public tramway was modelled; hence the current sense (late 19th cent.).
