What does cable car mean?

cable car means "a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway".

What is another word for cable car?

Close synonyms include car. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cable car a common word?

cable car is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Cable car — meaning, 1 synonym and examples

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
“they took a cable car to the top of the mountain”
Synonymscar
Broadercompartment
Part ofcable railway

Questions about cable car

What does cable car mean?: cable car means "a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway".
What is another word for cable car?: Close synonyms include car. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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