Definitions for ambulance
ˈæm byə lənsam·bu·lance

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. ambulancenoun

   a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ambulancenoun

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

2. ambulancenoun

   A mobile field hospital.

3. Etymology: From ambulance, from ambulant, from ambulare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ambulance

   An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to medical emergencies by emergency medical services (EMS). For this purpose, they are generally equipped with flashing warning lights and sirens. They can rapidly transport paramedics and other first responders to the scene, carry equipment for administering emergency care and transport patients to hospital or other definitive care. Most ambulances use a design based on vans or pickup trucks. Others take the form of motorcycles, buses, limousines, aircraft and boats. Generally, vehicles count as an ambulance if they can transport patients. However, it varies by jurisdiction as to whether a non-emergency patient transport vehicle (also called an ambulette) is counted as an ambulance. These vehicles are not usually (although there are exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances. Conversely, EMS agencies may also have emergency response vehicles that cannot transport patients. These are known by names such as nontransporting EMS vehicles, fly-cars or response vehicles. The term ambulance comes from the Latin word "ambulare" as 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. Ambulances (Ambulancias in Spanish) were first used for emergency transport in 1487 by the Spanish forces during the siege of Málaga by the Catholic Monarchs against the Emirate of Granada. 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

   An ambulance is a specially equipped vehicle designed to transport sick or injured individuals to a medical facility such as a hospital. It often includes facilities and equipment for providing emergency medical care to those individuals while in transit. The vehicle is usually staffed by paramedics or other medical professionals trained in emergency care.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

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

2. Ambulancenoun

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

3. 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.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Rodney K. Harrison:

   When Negrin arrived at the scene and saw Chelsea in the back seat, his instincts kicked into play, his training, him being the father of three, he was able to calm Chelsea down, get Chelsea into a Ridge Fire Department ambulance – but that was the easy part.

2. Mayor Ravi Bhalla:

   I received a call from our police chief Kenneth Ferrante notifying me of a bar fight in downtown Hoboken, with at least one person falling in and out of consciousness, and our police having to wait for over 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, because our EMS is inundated with service calls, this is unfortunately a contributing factor why we cannot continue bar operations which can trigger calls for service that are delayed in part because of this public health crisis.

3. 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.

4. Akhilesh Chaturvedi:

   Most were bleeding profusely. The problem is that nobody is able to drive an ambulance to the spot.

5. Ricardo Berrare:

   He walked normally into the ambulance, so he wasn't being helped or nothing.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ambulance
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ambulance
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambulance
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ambulance
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ambulance