ambulance

Meaning

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.

Hyphenated as

am‧bu‧lance

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæm.bjə.ləns/

Etymology

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

Sentences

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .