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prams

prams is the plural of pram.

Meaning of pram

Noun (1)

pram (plural prams)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
    • Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.1975, Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold, published 1977, page 127
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, broadly, colloquial) A pushchair; a buggy.

Noun (2)

pram (plural prams)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, historical) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, historical) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
    • Although the pram, like the johnboat, has a squared-off bow as well as stern, the bow lines on the pram will be narrower than those encountered on a johnboat.August 1979, F. M. Paulson, “Car-topable Craft”, in Field & Stream, page 50

Noun capitalized: PRAMs

PRAMs

  1. (plural) plural of PRAM

Phrases with prams

Questions about prams

What is prams the plural of?
Prams is the plural of pram.
What part of speech is prams?
Prams is a noun.

Words near prams in the dictionary

  1. Pramnian
  2. pramocaine
  3. Pramod
  4. Pramodoota
  5. pramoxine
  6. prams
  7. prana
  8. pranam
  9. pranama
  10. pranamas
  11. pranams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prams (page history and authors); PRAMs (page history and authors); pram (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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