Ambulance Definition
ămbyə-ləns
ambulances
noun
A mobile field hospital.
Webster's New World
A specially equipped automobile or other vehicle for carrying an ill or injured person, as to a hospital for medical treatment.
Webster's New World
A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.
American Heritage Medicine
(military) A mobile field hospital.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- meat-wagon
- hospital plane
- field wagon
- rescue squad
- hospital wagon
- Red Cross truck
- mobile hospital
- sick transport
Other Word Forms of Ambulance
Noun
Singular:
ambulance
Plural:
ambulancesOrigin of Ambulance
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French from (hôpital) ambulant mobile (hospital) from Latin ambulāns ambulant- present participle of ambulāre to walk ambhi in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French ambulance, from ambulant (“walking, shifting”), from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).
From Wiktionary
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