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ambulance

noun
/ˈæm.bjə.ləns/

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

  1. derived from ambulō
  2. borrowed from ambulance

Definitions

  1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a…

    An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

    • The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.

  2. A mobile field hospital.

  3. A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.

    2. Synonym of covered wagon.

    3. To transport by ambulance.

      • Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

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Derived

air ambulance, amberlamps, ambulance at the bottom of a cliff, ambulance-chase, ambulance chaser, ambulance chasing, ambulance cover, ambulanceman, ambulanceperson, ambulance train, ambulancewoman, ambulette, cabulance, call an ambulance, field ambulance, motor-ambulance, nonambulance, police ambulance, private ambulance, vanbulance, wahmbulance, wambulance

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ambulance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA