tramway

English

On- and off-street tramway in the Czech Republic

A cable car tramway in the United States

Etymology

tram +‎ way

Noun

tramway (plural tramways)

1. The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
2. The system of cables that supports a cable car.

Derived terms

• aerial tramway
• cable tramway

Descendants

• → French: tramway
  • → Russian: трамва́й (tramváj) (see there for further descendants)

Translations

track on which trams run

• Danish: sporvej c
• Finnish: raitiotie (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sporvei (no) m, sporveg m

  Nynorsk: sporveg m

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French

tramway

Etymology

From Middle Dutch trame, ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.mwɛ/

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Noun

tramway m (plural tramways)

1. (rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)

Further reading

• “tramway” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).