ambulance
Ambulance (noun) means a vehicle equipped to carry sick or injured people to a hospital, usually with emergency medical staff aboard. Example: “The ambulance arrived within minutes and rushed him to the emergency room.”
How to Use Ambulance
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe emergency vehicle used to rush sick or injured people to hospital.
Word Forms
ambulanced past tense, ambulances plural, ambulances singular
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The _____ arrived within minutes and rushed him to the emergency room.
Etymology
Borrowed from French ambulance, shortened from hopital ambulant ("mobile hospital"), from Latin ambulare, "to walk about".
Rhymes for ambulance
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What does “ambulance” mean?
The word “ambulance” means a vehicle equipped to carry sick or injured people to a hospital, usually with emergency medical staff aboard. In plain terms, the emergency vehicle used to rush sick or injured people to hospital.
How do you pronounce “ambulance”?
“Ambulance” is pronounced AM-byuh-luhns (/ˈæm.bjə.ləns/ in IPA).
How do you use “ambulance” in a sentence?
Here is “ambulance” used in a sentence: “The ambulance arrived within minutes and rushed him to the emergency room.”
What part of speech is “ambulance”?
“Ambulance” is a noun.
Where does the word “ambulance” come from?
The word “ambulance” comes from Latin. Borrowed from French ambulance, shortened from hopital ambulant ("mobile hospital"), from Latin ambulare, "to walk about".
Is “ambulance” a common word?
“Ambulance” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.
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