ambo
Americannoun
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ambos
plural
noun
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an ambulance driver
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an ambulance
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ambo
First recorded in 1635–45; from Medieval Latin ambō(n), from Greek ámbōn “edge, rim, pulpit”
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Claire Fraser is the senior sister heading the day's "ambo" team.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2023
There is also an entirely new "ambo" team that has been created to care for the patients who can't even get into the corridors.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2023
The ambo had two ascents—one from the east, and the other from the west.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
As early as the fourth century the Council of Laodicea had decreed that “besides the appointed singers, who mount the ambo, and sing from the book, others shall not sing in the church.”
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden
Beyond sleeps Solomon, most faithful of husbands; and under this turf of buttercups and daisies lie Paris and Lovelace, arcades ambo, too early lost.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis
I awoke up surrounded by police and ambos, concerned flatmates.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
Its two ambos stand on each side of the raised portion of the floor which corresponds to the choir in the Basilica of Honorius.
From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various
The pulpits and ambos chosen for the illustrations in this issue of The Brochures are mainly interesting for their wonderful mosaic decorations which are among the finest of their kind which have ever been executed.
From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various
Lastly, the two ambos, or pulpits, survive in two senses.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
"And—and"—here he hesitated, and his voice shook and trembled with the most intense and heart—crushing emotion—"y una mas cara que ambos?"
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
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