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

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.

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

YourDictionary

An emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

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:

ambulances

Origin of Ambulance

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
From French ambulance, from ambulant (“walking, shifting”), from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).

From Wiktionary