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byə 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.
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ambulance (ˈæmbjʊləns) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people | |
| [C19: from French, based on (hôpital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulāre to walk] | |
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Word Origin & History
ambulance
1809, "mobile or field hospital," from Fr. (hôpital) ambulant, lit. "walking (hospital)," from L. ambulans (gen. ambulantis), from ambulare "to walk" (see amble). Not common until meaning transferred from "field hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field"
(1854) during the Crimean War. Ambulance-chaser as a contemptuous term for a type of lawyer dates from 1897.
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Medical Dictionary
ambulance am·bu·lance (ām'byə-ləns)
n.
A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.
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Example sentences
The damage to his upper lip was so bad they had to be taken to the emergency room by ambulance and he had to have plastic surgery.
On top of that, the app has a built-in emergency button so people in need can easily be located by an ambulance or the police.
He shot pedestrians in the street and an ambulance driver who came to rescue them.
And our ambulance is now running around-the-clock, transporting injured civilians to health centers.
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