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

On Friday, jurors were shown mobile phone footage said to show Mr Majek dancing near the hotel with an ambulance in the background.

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Footage shared on social media shows a large crowd gathered around an ambulance as the body of Muhammad was driven back to his village in the dark.

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Since assisting with the birth, she has gone on to help deliver her first baby while on placement with the ambulance service.

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"I just thought the ambulance service didn't want to help if they were going to take that long and the voice told me I had to go through with it," she said in her evidence.

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He proudly mentioned a new ambulance the show’s team has been working on.

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