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Definition of ambulance noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ambulance

noun
 
 
/ˈæmbjələns/
 
/ˈæmbjələns/
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  1. a vehicle with special equipment, used for taking sick or injured people to a hospital
    • Call an ambulance!
    • the ambulance service
    • The ambulance crew rushed her to the hospital.
    see also air ambulance
    Extra Examples
    • An ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident.
    • Don't worry—the ambulance is on its way.
    • He was put into an ambulance and taken away.
    • He went in the ambulance with his father.
    Topics Transport by car or lorryb2, Healthcareb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • air
    • field
    • land
    • …
    verb + ambulance
    • call (for)
    • get
    • phone (for)
    • …
    ambulance + verb
    • be on its way
    • arrive
    • come
    • …
    ambulance + noun
    • service
    • crew
    • personnel
    • …
    preposition
    • by ambulance
    • in an/​the ambulance
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: French, from hôpital ambulant ‘mobile (horse-drawn) field hospital’, from Latin ambulant- ‘walking’, from ambulare.
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