perambulator

English

Noun

perambulator (plural perambulators)

1. (Britain) A baby carriage; a pram.
   • 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.

2. One who perambulates.
3. 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.

Synonyms

• pram

Related terms

• perambulate
• perambulation
• perambulatory

Translations

pram — see pram

Further reading

perambulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Verb

perambulātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of perambulō

References

• “perambulator” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016