perambulator

noun

per·​am·​bu·​la·​tor pə-ˈram-byə-ˌlā-tər How to pronounce perambulator (audio)
 for sense 2 also  ˈpram-
1
: one that perambulates
2
chiefly British : a baby carriage

Examples of perambulator in a Sentence

counts himself among that select group of hikers who are perambulators of the entire Appalachian Trail nannies pushing perambulators around London's Hyde Park
Recent Examples on the Web In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram. Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022 One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons. Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022 Scilla caught up to this unlikely perambulator in a few strides. Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 June 2021 The buskers have been banished; the perambulators have perished. Rachel Schallom, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020 Maple leaves like dinner plates have blown up against the high tread of the sidewalks, and bicycles and perambulators are too tall to climb onto or into. Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2019 The carousel’s maker, the Charles W.F. Dare Company, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also manufactured children’s perambulators and toys, such as rocking horses. Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017 But, happily, the American perambulators enjoying their walk beside the wall would need only peek through it to see drug dealers loading up a medieval siege weapon, allowing them to hastily run for cover. Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 July 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of perambulator was in 1611

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Cite this Entry

“Perambulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perambulator. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

perambulator

noun
per·​am·​bu·​la·​tor pə-ˈram-byə-ˌlāt-ər How to pronounce perambulator (audio)
1
: one that perambulates
2
chiefly British : a baby carriage
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