noun
ambulance
AM-byuh-luhns
noun
1
A vehicle equipped to carry sick or injured people to a hospital, usually with emergency medical staff aboard.
"The ambulance arrived within minutes and rushed him to the emergency room."
"Someone called an ambulance as soon as she collapsed."
How to Use Ambulance
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe emergency vehicle used to rush sick or injured people to hospital.
Common pairings
call an ambulance
ambulance crew
ambulance siren
Word Forms
ambulanced past tense, ambulances plural, ambulances singular
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Etymology
Borrowed from French ambulance, shortened from hopital ambulant ("mobile hospital"), from Latin ambulare, "to walk about".