Translation
ambulance
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Word origin
From ambulant ('walking, mobile'), from Latin ambulare ('to walk'). The word began as hôpital ambulant, a field hospital that moved with an army, and English borrowed ambulance from French in the nineteenth century.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ambulare
- English cognates
- ambulance, ambulatory, amble
Grammar
Examples
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Call an ambulance, quickly!
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The ambulance arrived in under ten minutes.
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He was taken to hospital by ambulance.
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An ambulance was waiting outside the stadium.
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The ambulance driver knows every street in the area.
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Start your free week (no card)This word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 3: ambulance, boutique, incendie and 7 more words.