perambulator
English
Etymology
perambulate + -or
Noun
perambulator (plural perambulators)
- (Britain) A baby carriage.
- Synonym: pram
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
- "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.
- One who perambulates.
- A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
Related terms
- perambulate
- perambulation
- perambulatory
Translations
pram — see pram
Further reading
perambulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “perambulator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
Verb
perambulātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
References
- perambulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016