Definitions for ambulance
ˈæm byə lənsam·bu·lance

Princeton's WordNet(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ambulancenoun

   a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals

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1. ambulancenoun

   An emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital.

   Etymology: From ambulance, from ambulant, from ambulare.

2. ambulancenoun

   A mobile field hospital.

   Etymology: From ambulance, from ambulant, from ambulare.

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1. Ambulancenoun

   a field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps

   Etymology: [F. ambulance, hpital ambulant, fr. L. ambulare to walk. See Amble.]

2. Ambulancenoun

   an ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital

   Etymology: [F. ambulance, hpital ambulant, fr. L. ambulare to walk. See Amble.]

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1. Ambulance

   An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going emergency ambulances which form part of an emergency medical service, administering emergency care to those with acute medical problems. The term ambulance does, however, extend to a wider range of vehicles other than those with flashing warning lights and sirens. The term also includes a large number of non-urgent ambulances which are for transport of patients without an urgent acute condition and a wide range of urgent and non-urgent vehicles including trucks, vans, bicycles, motorbikes, station wagons, buses, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, boats, and even hospital ships. The term ambulance comes from the Latin word ambulare, meaning to walk or move about which is a reference to early medical care where patients were moved by lifting or wheeling. The word originally meant a moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements. During the American Civil War vehicles for conveying the wounded off the field of battle were called ambulance wagons. Field hospitals were still called ambulances during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and in the Serbo-Turkish war of 1876 even though the wagons were first referred to as ambulances about 1854 during the Crimean War.

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1. Ambulance

   am′būl-ans, n. a carriage which follows an army and serves as a movable hospital for the wounded—also used as an adj., as in ambulance wagon.—n. Ambulan′cier, a man attached to an ambulance.—adj. Am′bulant, walking: moving from place to place: (rare) unfixed.—v.t. and v.i. Am′bulate (rare), to walk.—p.adj. Am′bulating.—n. Ambulā′tion.—adj. Am′bulatory, having the power or faculty of walking: moving from place to place, not stationary: mutable.—n. any part of a building intended for walking in, as the aisles of a church, or the cloisters of a monastery: any kind of corridor. [Fr.—L. ambulans, -antis, pr.p. of ambulāre, to walk about.]

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ambulance' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4073

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ambulance' in Nouns Frequency: #1979

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ambulance in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ambulance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ambulance in a Sentence

1. Justin Sattina:

   The husband will be angry that the wife called 911 and it caused a big scene with the ambulance out in front at their house, and I say ‘no, no, no, your wife did the right thing,’ i see these little looks of thanks when I reinforce that for the family.

2. Johnny Davis:

   I did what any father would do, stopped the car, hopped out, stopped traffic and became the doctor. Got the baby out. Called the ambulance and here we are.

3. Brittney Berry:

   The managers told me to put mustard on it, but I ended up having to get rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

4. George Bryan:

   The theme park staff tried to help her and an air ambulance airlifted her to a hospital nearby.

5. Tim Collins:

   The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.

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