Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

street railway

/stɹiːt-ɹeɪlweɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English

Syllables: street rail-way
IPA: /stɹiːt-ɹeɪlweɪ/

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tram line; public transportation operating on rails laid in public streets.

Example Sentences

""In the Year-Book of Facts, 1861, pp. 75-80, we described Train's new Street Railway.""
"1898, Mason Delano Pratt, Charles Ames Alden, Street-railway Roadbed, Street Railway Publishing Company, Page 67, "Since street-railway tracks were laid along the lines of other vehicular traffic.""
"1859, Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street Or Horse-power Railways, Street Railway Publishing Company, Page 63, "In the prosecution of no new work is activity, dispatch, and system in the distribution of material more necessary than in that of a street railway, where the obstruction to travel, the temporary inconvenience to residents on the line of the torn-up street, and consequent danger of infringing…""

Inflected Forms

street railways (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce street railway?: The recorded pronunciation is /stɹiːt-ɹeɪlweɪ/.
What does street railway mean?: A tram line; public transportation operating on rails laid in public streets.

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