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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance¹

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

Example Sentences

Theo was subsequently moved to the floor, where resuscitation efforts continued before the ambulance arrived.

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Ahead of the release in Ramallah, ambulances from the Palestine Red Crescent Society set up in preparation to treat any injured prisoners.

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They tried to keep him calm while they waited for an ambulance.

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"There was a lot of ambulances, fire trucks, everything, parked down at the gas station."

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Two ambulances and an air ambulance were sent to the scene.

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