Synonyms for ambulance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : am-byuh-luh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm byə ləns |
Définition of ambulance
Origin :- 1798, "mobile or field hospital," from French (hôpital) ambulant, literally "walking (hospital)," from Latin ambulantem (nominative ambulans), present participle of ambulare "to walk" (see amble).
- AMBULANCE, s. f. a moveable hospital. These were houses constructed in a manner so as to be taken to pieces, and carried from place to place, according to the movements of the army; and served as receptacles in which the sick and wounded men might be received and attended. ["Lexicographica-Neologica Gallica" (The Neological French Dictionary), William Dupré, London, 1801]
- The word was not common in English until the meaning transferred from "field hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field" (1854) during the Crimean War. In late 19c. U.S. the word was used dialectally to mean "prairie wagon." Ambulance-chaser as a contemptuous term for a type of lawyer dates from 1897.
- noun emergency vehicle
- He has joined an ambulance corps that is going to the Front.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Scarcely a night went by without its patrol or ambulance case.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He was a surgeon-major, and was wearing the ambulance badge on his sleeve.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- On December 20 three of these unfortunate women were brought into the ambulance.
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- He had been brought in unconscious, in an ambulance conveyance.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- It was Christmas-eve, and I had decorated the ambulance with festoons of green leaves.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- It is a pity to drag these poor chaps about from one ambulance to another.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- On returning to the ambulance I met one of my friends at the door.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- He had fallen there himself, and had been picked up by the ambulance people.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Harry and I were riding abreast in advance of the ambulance.
- Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
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