Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A transportation system designed to carry large numbers of people quickly up a mountain, in which cabins or cars are strung between parallel sides of a looped elevated cable.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : funi(culaire), funicular (from Latin fūniculus, slender rope; see funiculus) + téléphérique, telpher (from English telepher obsolete variant of telpher; see telpher + French -ique, adj. and n. suff., from Latin -icus, -ic).]

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Examples

  • Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.

    Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010

  • Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.

    Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010

  • Her husband, she says, mainly invested in improving the skiing, building more than 30 lifts and the only funitel tram — a type of aerial lift that originated in Europe — in the U.S.

    Squaw Valley Seeks to Regain Edge Jim Carlton 2010

  • For their needs, a funitel would be more cost effective and provide the same level of support.

    Gondola planned for Burnaby Mountain « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

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