perambulator
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰider. Proto-Italic *amβi Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der. Proto-Italic *alō Latin *alō Latin ambulō Latin perambulō Latin perambulātusbor. English perambulate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English perambulator From perambulate + -or.
- derived from -or English perambulator From perambulate + -or
- derived from -our ▲ Latin -torlbor
- derived from *amβi Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der✻
- derived from *per-der✻
Definitions
A baby carriage.
- 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.
- "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…
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.
The neighborhood
- neighborperambulate
- neighborperambulation
- neighborperambulatory
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