"tramway" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tramways [plural]
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  1. (chiefly UK, Ireland) The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs. Tags: Ireland, UK Translations (track on which trams run): sporvej [common-gender] (Danish), tramspoor [neuter] (Dutch), tramvojo (Esperanto), raitiotie (Finnish), ტრამვაის ლიანდაგი (ṭramvais liandagi) (Georgian), ტრამვაის ხაზი (ṭramvais xazi) (Georgian), ტრამვაის რელსები (ṭramvais relsebi) (Georgian), Trambahn (German), trambhealach [masculine] (Irish), тра́мвајска ли́нија (trámvajska línija) [feminine] (Macedonian), sporvei [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sporveg [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sporveg [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tor tramwajowy [masculine] (Polish), spårväg [masculine] (Swedish), spårvagnsräls [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. (US) The system of cables that supports a cable car. Tags: US
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  3. (Victoria, formal) A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses. Tags: formal
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tramwayman

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "track on which trams run",
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      "sense": "track on which trams run",
      "word": "ტრამვაის ლიანდაგი"
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      "roman": "ṭramvais xazi",
      "sense": "track on which trams run",
      "word": "ტრამვაის ხაზი"
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      "roman": "ṭramvais relsebi",
      "sense": "track on which trams run",
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      "sense": "track on which trams run",
      "word": "Trambahn"
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}

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