Meaning of Streetcar | Babel Free
ˈstɹitˌkɑɹDefinitions
A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
Canada, US
Equivalents
Examples
“Here, outside, in the light⟳ and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.”
“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.”
“[…]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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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