: a small lightweight nearly flat-bottomed boat with a broad transom and usually squared-off bow

pram

2 of 2

noun (2)

chiefly British

Examples of pram in a Sentence

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Noun
The response by a functionary was widely thought of as absurdly anachronistic: A scene in which hooligans stone to death a baby in a pram could not be publicly staged. Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Three documents provided to WIRED detail how AI models were used to detect wheelchairs, prams, vaping, people accessing unauthorized areas, or putting themselves in danger by getting close to the edge of the train platforms. Matt Burgess, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024 Showing their commitment to all things Halloween, the couple even had a pram filled with baby ogres in tow. Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023 The sequence’s immersive nature persists as Reem’s baby pleasantly coos in her pram and Reem casually laments about her marital hardships with her controlling husband Yousef (Jalal Masarwa). Tomris Laffly, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 Scott Boute, a representative for Radcliffe, confirmed the birth to CNN on Wednesday, after the Daily Mail published photographs of the couple pushing a pram in New York earlier this week. Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023 Princess Elizabeth plays with a doll in a toy pram outside the Welsh House in 1933. Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2022 The girl lived in a pram next to Alisa’s bed. Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 Now back from Mexico City, the Ergobaby Metro Plus stroller still gets its fair share of use over the other prams in our family’s fleet. Nila Do Simon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle Dutch praem & Middle Low German prām

Noun (2)

by shortening & alteration from perambulator

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1531, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1884, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pram was in 1531

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“Pram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pram. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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