ambulant

[am-byuh-luhnt]

adjective

1. moving from place to place; itinerant; shifting.

2. Medicine/Medical.,  ambulatory.

ambulant

/ ˈæmbjʊlənt /

adjective

1. moving about from place to place

2. med another word for ambulatory

Other Word Forms

• unambulant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulant¹

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

Example Sentences

He moved into the building four years ago after it was advertised as a "fully accessible" property, but believes it should have been listed as "ambulant accessible" instead.

From BBC

PT2-5: These classes are for ambulant athletes whose impairments include loss of muscle strength, range of movement and loss of limbs.

From BBC

So in the beginning, he’s basically a kind of ambulant whiteboard?

From The Guardian

We get flashbacks, to the final day of his ambulant life, in which he crouches behind a parked car, on a bright morning, to take a furtive swig of tequila.

From The New Yorker

He is lethally silent and stricken in Paris, Texas’s opening scenes, an ambulant Mount Rushmore of personal agony as he faces his troubled brother, played by Dean Stockwell.

From The Guardian

Related Words

• nomadic 
• peripatetic 
• roving 
• wandering