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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance, from (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”), from Latin ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.bj?.l?ns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /?æm.bj??læns/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lance

Noun

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• ambulatory
• ambulant

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????????? (embulens)

Translations

Verb

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.

Further reading

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ambulant?s?]

Noun

ambulance f

1. ambulance
2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

Declension

Synonyms

• (ambulance): sanitka

Related terms

• ambulantní
• ambulantn?

Further reading

• ambulance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ambulance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.by?l?n.s?/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lan?ce
• Rhymes: -?ns?

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance
   • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, 59.

     Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.

   • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).

     Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek

Synonyms

• ziekenauto
• ziekenwagen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ambulans
• ? Indonesian: ambulans

French

Etymology

From Latin ambulans, present participle of ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by.l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ambulance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. (Jersey) ambulance

English

Etymology

From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambul? (“I walk, go about”). Doublet of amble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æmbj?le?t/

Verb

ambulate (third-person singular simple present ambulates, present participle ambulating, simple past and past participle ambulated)

1. (intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.

   Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:walk

Translations

Related terms

• ambi-
• amble
• ambulance
• ambulant
• ambulation
• ambulator
• ambulatory
• somnambulate
• funambulate
• circumambulate

Further reading

• ambulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

ambul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ambul?

Participle

ambul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ambul?tus