trolley car

Questions about trolley car

What is another word for trolley car?

It depends which trolley car you mean. In the sense “a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity”, the synonyms are streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of trolley car?

WordNet records no antonym for trolley car. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for trolley car come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of trolley car

• Full entry for trolley carAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for trolley carWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.