ambulance
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
Noun 3 meanings
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
A mobile field hospital.
A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
Verb 1 meaning
To transport by ambulance.
Etymology
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
AMBULANCE at a glance
AMBULANCE has 9 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (A 1 + M 3 + B 3 + U 1 + L 1 + A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 21 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,334 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with ambulance
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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