Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A public vehicle operated on rails along a regular route, usually through the streets of a city.
Wiktionary
- n. US A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car, but also attached together, operating on city streets. A trolley car.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
Etymologies
- street + car (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Alstom and the Swiss company Stadler LRV are also produce very competitive trams the term streetcar is never used in Europe and Ansaldo of Italy is also gaining sales.”
“JK: Good that we agree that the streetcar is a complete waste.”
“In the meantime, the streetcar is already moving on its track.”
“And those who complain about how slow the streetcar is should see the merit in spacing bus stops along the mall further apart.”
“I like his observation that "the streetcar is so slow that sometimes you can beat it just by walking.”
“It's the same thing as when they tell you that a new streetcar is going to stimulate (or has stimulated) billions of dollars in investment somewhere.”
“Where a streetcar is faster or more reliable than the bus route it replaced, this is because other improvements were made at the same time -- improvements that could just as well have been made for the bus route.”
“I think that the First Ave streetcar is a good idea and if built could connect Seattle center to Pike place and much else.”
“You'd have to be pretty high to call a streetcar rapid ... or high capacity.”
“Koski calls the streetcar blowup "a good case study" for the power of social media.”
The Washington Post: Gray outguns Fenty in the social media battle
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘streetcar’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Go Commuter Go Go Go!
Public transportation.
subway, metro, el, train, bus, trolley, jitney, ferry, tram, shuttle, light rail, dollar van and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for streetcar.
reesetee *thinks chained_bear may be right about that gruesome and macabre stuff* Apr 22, 2009
chained_bear *ponders*
*decides that combining gruesome and macabre causes of death list with pregnancy list would be rather too gruesome and macabre* Apr 22, 2009
reesetee *waits patiently for gruesome and macabre list*
*fears reading gruesome and macabre list but doesn't fear dying from reading it* Apr 22, 2009
chained_bear Reading that page, it seemed obvious that the "most feared" causes of death are all violent, sudden, unexpected (perhaps), and horrifying, while the six "most common" causes of death (except motor-vehicle accidents) are pretty long-term and—for lack of a better word ... boring. I wonder if that discrepancy has anything to do with the "most feared" status.
(I fear dying in a car crash all the time—or in a plane crash, or a house fire.) Apr 22, 2009
bilby Oddly enough, I just randomed this page. Apr 22, 2009
chained_bear Thanks. *whew* Apr 22, 2009
bilby *passes paper bag* Apr 22, 2009
chained_bear Of course! It could be gruesome and macabre, just like sionnach says my Pregnancy list is. :) Then we could make a list of gruesome and macabre lists! And tag it!! And make a list of the tags! And tag THAT!! *hyperventilates* Apr 22, 2009
bilby A Streetcar Named ... Survival?
Perhaps I'm morbid but I think the stats are fascinating. Basis for a list? Apr 22, 2009
sionnach Not to mention the occasional neurotic Southern Belle, depending on the kindness of strangers to collect the necessary fare. Nov 29, 2007
rolig A word that evokes an earlier time when everyone used public transportation; that conjures up the big city, with its welcoming anonymity and the promise of small, or sometimes big, adventures. Nov 29, 2007