ambulance

B1 Topic:Health & Medicine

US /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/ See IPA manual

noun verb 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.

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Forms ambulances

Derived forms amberlampsambulance-chaseambulancemanambulancepersonambulancewomanambulettecabulancemotor-ambulancenonambulancevanbulancewahmbulancewambulance

Related forms ambulantambulatory

Etymology

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

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# ambulance

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**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

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