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View synonyms for cable car

cable car

or cable-car

noun

  1. a vehicle, usually enclosed, used on a cable railway or tramway.


cable car

noun

  1. a cabin suspended from and moved by an overhead cable in a mountain area
  2. a cableway
  3. a passenger car on a cable railway


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cable car1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Example Sentences

Everyone should take the cable car at least once in their life.

They shared the cable car with an old water colorist, and two other young couples.

A cable-car, with clanging bell, was bearing down upon it with a speed which the gripman seemed powerless to check.

The cable car isn't a car at all, children, but is a hilly-cum-go, a species of rocking horse and a grown-up kiddie-kar.

There was no gay and chattering crowd in Market Street, not even the light of a cable car flashing through the grey drizzle.

Even the distant clang of a cable car out in the city will not break the spell that is on you now.

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