Synonyms for streetcar
ˈstritˌkɑrstreet·car

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1. streetcarnoun

   Synonyms:
   tram

2. streetcarnoun

   A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car, but also attached together, operating on city streets. A trolley car.

   1906 Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof. — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 20.

   Synonyms:
   tram

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1. streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley carnoun

   a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

   Synonyms:
   tramcar, trolley car, tramway, cable tramway, tram, aerial tramway, ropeway, trolley

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1. • Self-propelled Vehicle

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1. List of paraphrases for "streetcar":

   tramway, tram, trolley

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How to use streetcar in a sentence?

1. Stephen Colbert:

   And one nickel is a lot, you can take a streetcar to the Ziegfeld and see a talkie... and still have enough left over for an egg cream at Woolworth's.

2. Robert Joseph Bob Dole:

   We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

3. Anthony Foxx:

   This is not a streetcar to nowhere, it is the beginning of a resurgence.