ambulance

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
2. A mobile field hospital.
3. (obsolete) A prairie wagon.

Verb

To transport by ambulance.

Sinonieme

field hospital

mobile hospital

emergency department

emergency room

instancy

lifeboat

rescue boat

field wagon

hospital wagon

crash wagon

ambulance car

medical vehicle

ambulances

Koppelteken as

am‧bu‧lance

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈæm.bjə.ləns/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced French (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).

Sinne

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .