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tramstop

tramstop noun: a designated point where trams stop to allow passengers to leave or board.

Noun

tramstop (plural tramstops)

  1. A designated point where trams stop to allow passengers to leave or board.
    • Young men with yellowish teeth standing guard at the entrances of big buildings, outside shops, on squares, at tramstops, in the scruffy park, in front of the dormitories, in bodegas, outside the station.2009 October 9, Blake Wilson, “Excerpts From the Writings of Herta Müller”, in New York Times
    • [...] the line through to Rochdale railway station would be extended by half a mile into Rochdale town centre to a new tramstop constructed alongside the site of a planned new bus station for the town. This would provide two tram stops in the town that offered interchange facilities with rail and...2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in Rail, page 60

Forms of tramstop

pluraltramstops

Origin of tramstop

From tram + stop.

Questions about tramstop

What does tramstop mean?
Tramstop means a designated point where trams stop to allow passengers to leave or board.
What part of speech is tramstop?
Tramstop is a noun.
What is the plural of tramstop?
The plural of tramstop is tramstops.

Words near tramstop in the dictionary

  1. tramroads
  2. trams
  3. tramsful
  4. tramshed
  5. tramsheds
  6. tramstop
  7. tramstops
  8. tramtrack
  9. tramway
  10. tramwayman
  11. tramwaymen

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