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ambulance

[ am-byuh-luhns ]

noun

  1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
  2. (formerly) a field hospital.


ambulance

/ ˈæmbjʊləns /

noun

  1. a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

1800–10; < French, equivalent to ( hôpital ) ambul ( ant ) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

C19: from French, based on ( hôpital ) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulāre to walk

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Example Sentences

That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.

By the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.

At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.

Ramos was still showing no signs of life when they got him on a backboard and into the ambulance.

He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.

Behind that came an army ambulance followed by an electric truck.

I have got him away in a motor ambulance in the hopes that an operation may save his life.

As it was long range, the bullet remained in his calf, and he went off in an ambulance to have it dug out.

For about two hours there was hot firing, and every now and then there was a little work for our ambulance people, but not much.

But now the ambulance was slowly returning from the place whither it had been sent to receive the dead bodies.

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