tram

1. 1.

   a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers

   Synonymstramwayaerial tramwaycable tramwayropeway

   Broaderconveyance
2. 2.

   a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine

   “a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine”

   Synonymstramcar

   Broaderwagon
3. 3.

   a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

   Synonymsstreetcartramcartrolleytrolley car

   Broaderself-propelled vehicle

   Narrowerhorsecar

   Part oftrolley line

   United Kingdom

1. 1.

   travel by tram

   Broadertravel

Other forms of tram

plural

trams·

past tense or participle

trammed

present participle

tramming

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tram

What does tram mean?

tram means "a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tram?

tram has 1 syllable: tram. In IPA it is /ˈtɹæm/.

What is another word for tram?

Close synonyms include tramway, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tramcar. 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 tram a common word?

tram is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.