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The definition of an ambulance is a vehicle that is used for the transportation of ill or injured individuals to a hospital or other medical facility.

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An example of an ambulance is a large white van with a siren that may come to rescue a person having a heart attack.

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noun

Obsolete a mobile field hospital
a specially equipped automobile or other vehicle for carrying the sick or wounded

Origin: Fr < (hôpital) ambulant < prp. of L ambulare: see amble

See ambulance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from (hôpital) ambulant, mobile (hospital)

Origin: , from Latin ambulāns, ambulant-

Origin: , present participle of ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots

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