ambulance

Meanings

Noun

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
A mobile field hospital.
A prairie wagon.

Verb

To transport by ambulance.

Origin

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced French (hôpital) ambulant via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō ("I walk, I go about").

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