ambulance
Syllables: am·bu·lance/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/
ambulance noun: an emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
Noun
ambulance (plural ambulances)
- An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
- The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.2025 December 12, Tobi Thomas, Denis Campbell, “NHS bracing for worst ever winter crisis in next fortnight amid rising flu cases”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- band-aid buggy, blood box, body box, bone box, meat wagon
- A mobile field hospital.
- A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
- Synonyms:
- private ambulance
- Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
- Synonyms:
- stretcher
- Synonym of covered wagon.
- Synonyms:
- covered wagon
Verb
ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)
- To transport by ambulance.
- Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66
ambulance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ambulance in Hindi
- emergency vehicle
- एम्बुलेंस embulens, रोगी-वाहन rogī-vāhan
ambulance in Tamil
- emergency vehicle
- நோயாளர் ஊர்தி nōyāḷar ūrti, ஆம்புலன்ஸ் āmpulaṉs
ambulance in Marathi
- emergency vehicle
- रुग्णवाहिका rugṇavāhikā
ambulance in Urdu
- emergency vehicle
- اَیمْبُولینْس aimbūlens, بِیمار گاڑی bīmār gāṛī, طِبی اِمْدادی گاڑی tibī imdādī gāṛī
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- ambulance in Bengali
- অ্যাম্বুলেন্স êmbulenśo
- ambulance in Telugu
- ఆంబులెన్స్ āmbulens
- ambulance in Malayalam
- ആംബുലൻസ് āmbulaṉsŭ
- ambulance in Kannada
- ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಾಡಿ, ಬೇನೆಬಂಡಿ, ಮದ್ದುಮನೆಬಂಡಿ, ತುರ್ತುರೋಗಿ ವಾಹಕ
- ambulance in Gujarati
- માંદાગાડી mā̃dāgāḍī
- ambulance in Sanskrit
- रुग्णवाहकम् rugṇavāhakam
- ambulance in Sinhala
- ගිලන් රථය gilan rathaya, ගිලන්රථය gilanrathaya, ගිලන්රිය gilanriya
- ambulance in Assamese
- এম্বুলেঞ্চ embuleñs
- ambulance in Nepali
- यम्बुलेन्स yambulensa
- ambulance in Pashto
- امبولانس ambulāns, ژغورګاډی žorgāḍay
- ambulance in Tagalog
- ambulansiya
- ambulance in Arabic
- سَيَّارَة إِسْعَاف sayyārat ʔisʕāf
- ambulance in Malay
- ambulans, kereta sakit
- ambulance in Indonesian
- ambulans, mobil darurat
- ambulance in Thai
- รถพยาบาล rót-pá-yaa-baan
- ambulance in Vietnamese
- xe cứu thương, xe cấp cứu
- ambulance in Myanmar
- လူနာတင်ကား lunatangka:, သူနာတင်ကား sunatangka:
Examples of ambulance in a sentence
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
- The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.
Synonyms of ambulance
Forms of ambulance
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ambulances |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ambulances |
| present participle | ambulancing |
| past participle | ambulanced |
| past | ambulanced |
Origin of ambulance
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
Words formed from ambulance
- air ambulance
- amberlamps
- ambulance at the bottom of a cliff
- ambulance-chase
- ambulance chaser
- ambulance chasing
- ambulance cover
- ambulanceman
- ambulanceperson
- ambulance train
- ambulancewoman
- ambulette
- cabulance
- call an ambulance
- field ambulance
- motor-ambulance
- nonambulance
- police ambulance
- private ambulance
- vanbulance
- wahmbulance
- wambulance
Phrases with ambulance
Questions about ambulance
- What does ambulance mean?
- Ambulance means an emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
- What is ambulance in Hindi?
- Ambulance in Hindi is एम्बुलेंस (embulens), रोगी-वाहन (rogī-vāhan). See Ambulance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ambulance?
- Ambulance can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce ambulance?
- Ambulance is pronounced /ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/.
- What is the plural of ambulance?
- The plural of ambulance is ambulances.
Words near ambulance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ambulance (page history and authors); ఆంబులెన్స్ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ambulance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); માંદાગાડી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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