Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

funicular railway

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English

Syllables: fu-nic-u-lar rail-way
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.

Example Sentences

"Funicular railways take gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. [...] Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s."

Inflected Forms

funicular railways (plural)

Synonyms

cable railway funicular

Questions

What does funicular railway mean?: A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.

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