pram

noun

ˈpram How to pronounce pram (audio)
Definition of pramnext
chiefly British
as in buggy
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in like other trendy Notting Hill couples, they bought a fancy pram for the first baby

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Recent Examples of pram There’s been a turning of the tables since the website conducted the study in 2021, when baby strollers stood at 67% and puppy prams at 33%,per the Korea Times. — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024 Next door, The Pantry offers every doodad parents might need: washing machines, tumble dryers, and bottle sterilizers to use around the clock, plus a range of family amenities — baby bathtubs, rockers, and prams — on loan for the duration of your stay. — Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024 But the street-side terraces that replaced them were equally chaotic, turning a stroll on the avenue into an assault course, especially for visitors with prams or wheelchairs. — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers. — David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for pram
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pram
  1. buggy
  2. crib
  3. pushchair
  4. stroller
  5. baby carriage
  6. baby buggy
  7. perambulator
Noun
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet were fantastic in their ideas, but dropped the ball in execution, with buggy, ugly, ill-performing games.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Lots of labored stuff about riding a buggy or a cart with all sorts of people dressed in costume running around him.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of buggy
Noun
  • Avocado organic crib mattress: $439 Avocado’s affordable organic crib mattress is made with organic cotton, wool and latex.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Problem With Baby Gear From car seats to cribs, every decision—especially for first-time parents—feels like a major one.
    — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of crib
Noun
  • Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • Riley’s custom pushchair, designed by Adaptive Star,has no gears but does have a safety brake to slow downhill runs.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
Definition of pushchair
Noun
  • At 20% off, now is the time to invest in a stroller that can handle everything from city streets to outdoor trails.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, the idea of hauling your stroller into a cramped cafe or dealing with a shrieking baby at a girls’ lunch can be daunting for new parents.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of stroller
Noun
  • As a young father pushed a baby carriage on a windy morning in Broward last week, streams of leaves and flowers cascaded down from a nearby towering oak tree.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Filmmakers from Denis Villeneuve to Brian De Palma have paid homage to the film's famous scene of a baby carriage careening down the staircase.
    — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of baby carriage
Noun
  • Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the parade highlights will include 14 pipe and drum marching bands, students from Irish dance schools performing, an appearance by Consulate General of Ireland Council Kevin Byrne and the original baby buggy parade float from the first parade in 1979.
    — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
Definition of baby buggy
Noun
  • 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
Definition of perambulator

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