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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

It began by constructing a network of cable cars, soaring above the terrain that had long divided the city.

What was once the lake behind Gora Dam, is now Gora Summit, a multilevel facility with working cable cars.

The Tanzanian government recently approved construction of a cable car on the 19,341-foot peak, the highest summit in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world.

Merwyn Nunes, a Tanzanian who opposes the cable car, worked for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism before serving as a tourist representative for the Kilimanjaro region.

That same year, Constantine Kanyasu, then deputy minister of tourism for Tanzania, told me the cable car would help students and travelers under 15 years old and older than 50 experience the mountain’s beauty.

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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