tram

See also Tram, trám, tràm, trăm, and trẫm

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Low German traam'. The popular derivation from tramway builder Benjamin Outram is false: the term pre-dated him.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trăm, IPA: /træm/, SAMPA: /tr{m/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

Wikipedia tram (plural trams)

1. A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.
2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
   • 1789, John Brand, History of Newcastle Upon Tyne, volume II, page 681. (Quoted in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, centenary edition, 1971, ISBN 304-93570-0.)

     Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.

Synonyms

(passenger vehicle):

• streetcar

Derived terms

• shoot through like a Bondi tram
• tramline
• tramway

Translations

passenger vehicle

Arabic: ترام (ar) (traam) m. Armenian: տրամվայ (hy) (tramvay) Azeri: tramvay (az) Belarusian: трамвай (be) (tramváj) m. Bosnian: tramvaj (bs) m. Bulgarian: трамвай (bg) (tramváj) m. Catalan: tramvia (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 有軌電車 (cmn), 有轨电车 (cmn) (yǒuguǐ diànchē), 電車 (cmn), 电车 (cmn) (diànchē) Croatian: tramvaj (hr) m. Czech: tramvaj (cs) f. Danish: sporvogn (da) Dutch: tram (nl) m. Esperanto: tramo (eo) Estonian: tramm (et) Finnish: raitiovaunu (fi) French: tramway (fr) m., tram (fr) m. Georgian: ტრამვაი (ka) (tramvai) German: Straßenbahn (de) f., S-bahn (de) f., (Austrian) Tram (de), Trambahn (de) f. Greek: τραμ (el) (tram) n. Hebrew: חשמליה (he) (khashmalya) f. Hindi: ट्राम (hi) (ṭrām) f. Hungarian: villamos (hu) Icelandic: sporvagn (is) m.

Italian: tram (it) m. Japanese: 市内電車 (ja) (shinai-densha), 市電 (ja) (shiden), トラム (ja) (toramu), 電車 (ja) (densha) Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha) (電車 (ko)), 트램 (ko) (teuraem) Latvian: tramvajs (lv) Lithuanian: tramwajus (lt) Macedonian: трамвај (mk) (tramváj) m. Norwegian: trikk (no), sporvogn (no) f. Persian: تراموای (fa) (trâmvây) Polish: tramwaj (pl) Portuguese: elétrico (pt) (European Portuguese), bonde (pt) (Brazilian Portuguese) Romanian: tramvai (ro) Russian: трамвай (ru) (tramváj) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трамвај (sh) m. Roman: tramvaj (sh) m. Slovak: električka (sk) f. Slovene: tramvaj (sl) m. Spanish: tranvía (es) m. Swedish: spårvagn (sv) Turkish: tramvay (tr) Ukrainian: трамвай (uk) (tramváj) m. Urdu: ٹرام (ur) (ṭrām) f. Vietnamese: tàu điện (vi)

vehicle for material

Dutch: wagen (nl) m., spoorwagen (nl) m., mijnwagen (nl) m.

Russian: вагонетка (ru) (vagonétka) f.

See also

• cablecar
• light rail
• streetcar
• trolley car

Verb

tram (third-person singular simple present trams, present participle tramming, simple past and past participle trammed)

1. (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.

Anagrams

• mart, RATM

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin trama.

Noun

tram m. (plural trams)

1. segment (of road etc.)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑm
• (Netherlands) IPA: /trɛm/
• (Belgium) IPA: /trɑm/, /trɛm/

• Audio

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Etymology

From English tram.

Noun

tram m. (plural trams or trammen, diminutive trammetje)

1. A tram, vehicle on rails for passenger transport in cities.

Anagrams

• ramt

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Italian

Noun

tram m. inv.

1. tram, streetcar