SINCE 1828
tramway
noun
tram·way
| \ ˈtram-ˌwā
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Definition of tramway
1a
: a railway for trams
b
British
: a streetcar line
2
: an overhead cable for trams
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During the latter bit of those eleven weeks, the tramway became a bit of a hero among a number of public transportation advocates. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Why Twitter should ignore the phony outrage over “shadow banning”," 27 July 2018 Limestone buildings were scrubbed back to their original pale-yellow splendor; waterfront warehouses were demolished and replaced with a landscaped promenade; a sleek electric tramway was commissioned to link the city's neighborhoods. — Molly Wizenberg, Town & Country, "Vintage Bordeaux," 14 Jan. 2013 The idea of an aerial tramway has been proposed several times over the years but has never taken off. — Chris Irvine, Fox News, "Warner Bros. proposes solution to Hollywood sign tourist traffic with $100 million aerial tramway," 10 July 2018 Also, there is a tramway to take you up into the mountains for a great view. — Scott Mcmurren, Anchorage Daily News, "Banff, Jasper and the incredible sights you’ll see driving up the Alaska-Canadian Highway," 10 June 2018 Part of which was working with the Austrian-Swiss company Doppelmayr/Garaventa to build the cutting-edge Wings of Tatev tramway, the longest reversible cableway in the world. — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, "How a Record-Breaking Aerial Tramway Helped Save a Centuries-Old Armenian Monastery," 6 July 2018 Navajo Nation member Renae Yellowhorse works with a group called Save the Confluence, which helped shut down the tramway. — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, "How Navajo Activists Defeated the Grand Canyon Escalade," 24 May 2018 The boy clearly remembers a sausage in a bun, eaten while perched in a tramway shelter, watching the trams go past in Düsseldorf. — Frances Leech, Longreads, "Forgetting the Madeleine," 3 May 2018 Historic videos atop the Mount Usu tramway detailed the risk of volcanic apocalypse (and Mount Usu's most recent eruption, in March 2000). — Bonnie Tsui, Redbook, "What It's Like to Travel Through 4 Countries In 3 Months With 2 Kids," 23 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tramway.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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