Stroller vs Stroll - What's the difference?
stroller | stroll |
A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
One who strolls.
A vagrant.
* 1771 , Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker , Penguin Classics, 1985, p.41:
Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
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, title= To go somewhere with ease.
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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Stroller is a see also of stroll.
As nouns the difference between stroller and stroll
is that stroller is a seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children while stroll is a wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.As a verb stroll is
to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.stroller
English
(Baby transport)Noun
(en noun)- The mayor observed that it was great presumption in Wilson, who was a stroller , to proceed to such extremities with a gentleman of family and fortune; and threatened to commit him on the vagrant act.
Synonyms
* (UK) pushchair * (UK) baby buggySee also
* pram * pusherAnagrams
*stroll
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}