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motor-ambulance

motor-ambulance noun: an ambulance.

Noun

motor-ambulance (plural motor-ambulances)

  1. (dated) An ambulance.
    • Though the precision and violence of modern weapons may have greatly increased the danger of warfare, science, Listerism, and mechanical ingenuity have come to the rescue by providing all sorts of means by which the lives of the wounded are saved. Chief among these is the motor-ambulance, which...1916, Alfred Northcliffe, At the War, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 37–8

Forms of motor-ambulance

pluralmotor-ambulances
alternative formmotor ambulance

Questions about motor-ambulance

What does motor-ambulance mean?
Motor-ambulance means an ambulance.
What part of speech is motor-ambulance?
Motor-ambulance is a noun.
What is the plural of motor-ambulance?
The plural of motor-ambulance is motor-ambulances.

Words near motor-ambulance in the dictionary

  1. motor vessels
  2. motor voter
  3. motor voters
  4. motor yacht
  5. motor yachts
  6. motor-ambulance
  7. motor-ambulances
  8. motor-boat
  9. motor-boats
  10. motor-coach
  11. motor-coaches

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