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ambulance

English

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An ambulance with its emergency lights on.

Etymology

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Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/, /ˈæm.bə.ləns/
  • (African-American Vernacular, also Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/, /ˈæm.bəˌlæns/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lance

Noun

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ambulance (plural ambulances)

  1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854[1]]
  2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798[1]]
  3. (UK) A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
    Synonym: private ambulance
  4. (chiefly UK, obsolete) Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
  5. (US, obsolete) Synonym of covered wagon. [Late 19c.[1]]

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Verb

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ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

  1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.
    • 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:
      Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ambulance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Czech

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Noun

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ambulance f

  1. ambulance
    Synonym: sanitka
  2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

Declension

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Declension of ambulance (soft feminine)
singular plural
nominative ambulance ambulance
genitive ambulance ambulancí
dative ambulanci ambulancím
accusative ambulanci ambulance
vocative ambulance ambulance
locative ambulanci ambulancích
instrumental ambulancí ambulancemi
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Further reading

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  • “ambulance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “ambulance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ambulance.

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ambulance c (singular definite ambulancen, plural indefinite ambulancer)

  1. ambulance

Declension

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Declension of ambulance
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ambulance ambulancen ambulancer ambulancerne
genitive ambulances ambulancens ambulancers ambulancernes

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Dutch

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ambulance

Etymology

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Borrowed from French ambulance.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɑm.byˈlɑn.sə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lan‧ce
  • Rhymes: -ɑnsə

Noun

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ambulance f (plural ambulances)

  1. ambulance
    Synonyms: ziekenauto, ziekenwagen
    • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, section 59:
      Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).
      Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin ambulāns, present participle of ambulō (“to walk, to go about”), replacing earlier hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”).

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ambulance f (plural ambulances)

  1. ambulance

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

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ambulance f (plural ambulances)

  1. (Jersey) ambulance
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