streetcar

noun
/ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/US

Etymology

From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.

  1. derived from *ḱr̥sós
  2. derived from *karros
  3. derived from *karros
  4. derived from carrus
  5. derived from carre
  6. inherited from carre
  7. compounded as streetcar — “street + car

Definitions

  1. A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached…

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

    • […]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at streetcar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01streetcar02trolley03tramway04trams05tram

A definitional loop anchored at streetcar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at streetcar

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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