ambulance B1 Topic:Health & Medicine US /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/ See IPA manual Freq #2436 Meanings 1 noun A vehicle that takes sick or injured people to hospital quickly. Someone called an ambulance as soon as the man collapsed in the street. Thesaurus Word family Forms ambulances Derived forms amberlampsambulance-chaseambulancemanambulancepersonambulancewomanambulettecabulancemotor-ambulancenonambulancevanbulancewahmbulancewambulance Related forms ambulantambulatory Etymology AI details Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”). *h₂elh₂- (wander) Proto-Indo-European ambulō Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # ambulance **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/ **Frequency rank:** 2436 ## Meanings 1. A vehicle that takes sick or injured people to hospital quickly. ## Examples - Someone called an ambulance as soon as the man collapsed in the street. ## Derived Forms - amberlamps - ambulance-chase - ambulanceman - ambulanceperson - ambulancewoman - ambulette - cabulance - motor-ambulance - nonambulance - vanbulance - wahmbulance - wambulance ## Related Forms - ambulant - ambulatory ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *h₂elh₂- (wander) - Root: ambulō ## Etymology Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”). ## AI Etymology Ambulance is borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”). The historical line also includes Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂- (wander). ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown