pram

«pram» in Mova's school dictionary: a carriage with four wheels in which a baby lies down and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pram, prams)

meaning for a pupil

A pram is a carriage with four wheels in which a baby lies down and is pushed along by an adult. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand parents push babies in prams to the shops, the park and school. In the USA it is usually called a «baby carriage» or «stroller». In safety, prams must have brakes on near roads and slopes. Phrases: «push a pram», «pram brake».

examples

• Mum pushed the baby in his pram. tree →
• Put the brake on the pram when you stop. tree →
• The pram has a hood to keep off the sun. tree →
• She fell asleep in her pram on the way home. tree →
• We need a ramp to get the pram up the steps. tree →
• The pram rolled away because the brake was off. tree →
• In America they call it a baby carriage. tree →
• My little sister is too big for the pram now. tree →
• “Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.” tree →

note

Countable: «a pram». It is short for «perambulator». A pushchair or stroller is for a child who can sit up; a pram is usually for a baby lying down.

In the corpora

• People with prams, wheelchairs and luggage go first in a station lift, because they cannot use stairs or escalators.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pram» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.