perambulator

Other forms of perambulator

plural

perambulators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perambulator

What does perambulator mean?

perambulator means "a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around".

How many syllables are in perambulator?

perambulator has 5 syllables and divides as pe-ram-bu-la-tor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for perambulator?

Close synonyms include baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, pram, stroller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perambulator a common word?

perambulator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.