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Word entry · 4 letters

tram

Best crossword clue

"Urban rail car"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /tɹæm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted amrtStarts with TEnds with M3 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2R3A4M

Definitions

  1. A city rail vehicle running on tracks in streets or reserved lanes.

Word origin

Early 16th century, borrowed from Scots, probably from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus.

Used in a sentence

  • Lizzie and she got a dozen of large bottles and the loan of a basket and we got a currant pan and a half-pound of cooked ham in the shop next door and got on the tram for Whitehall.
  • 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.
  • The game Half-Life, for example, begins with a movie in which Gordon Freeman, the player's avatar, takes a tram ride through the Black Mesa research complex while a voice explains why he is there.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Urban rail car4 letters
02Streetcar4 letters
03City rail car4 letters

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