tramway

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
noun the track on which trams or streetcars run

From tram + way.

That fellow Duke letting me in for gold-mines and tramways! — Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to Fathers, F. Anstey
The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company’s timekeeper bawled them off: —Rathgar and Terenure! — Ulysses, James Joyce
In the towns, the tramways and cabs no longer moved in the streets. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway

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