ambulant

[ am-byuh-luhnt ]
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adjective
  1. moving from place to place; itinerant; shifting.

  2. Medicine/Medical. ambulatory (def. 4).

Origin of ambulant

1
First recorded in 1645–55; from French , from Latin ambulant- (stem of ambulāns, present participle of ambulāre “to walk”); see origin at amble

Other words from ambulant

  • un·am·bu·lant, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for ambulant

ambulant

/ (ˈæmbjʊlənt) /


adjective
  1. moving about from place to place

  2. med another word for ambulatory (def. 3)

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