CABLE CAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cable car mean? 

• CABLE CAR (noun)
  The noun CABLE CAR has 1 sense:

1. a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

  Familiarity information: CABLE CAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABLE CAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cable car; car

Context example:

they took a cable car to the top of the mountain

Hypernyms ("cable car" is a kind of...):

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

Holonyms ("cable car" is a part of...):

cable railway; funicular; funicular railway (a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars)