ambulant
Americanadjective
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moving about from place to place
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med another word for ambulatory
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Etymology
Origin of ambulant
First recorded in 1645–55; from French , from Latin ambulant- (stem of ambulāns, present participle of ambulāre “to walk”); see origin at amble
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The plan was to avoid the crowds by heading to the little-visited Westfjords, a fitting—if admittedly risky—place to reintroduce my freshly ambulant, 74-year-old mother to the wider world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Thomas Young won the men's 100m ambulant final in 11.19, and the women's 800m wheelchair event was won by Kare Adenegan in 2:12.87.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
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 ● Sep. 15, 2017
He, the ambulant id, must nurse his own offspring, and feel their teeth.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
Ahead of him, emerging from the wood in the dusk like a cluster of ambulant stars, came a herd of unicorns.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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