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ambulance

[ am-byuh-luhns ]

noun

  1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
  2. (formerly) a field hospital.


ambulance

/ ˈæʊəԲ /

noun

  1. a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

1800–10; < French, equivalent to ( ô辱ٲ ) ambul ( ant ) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

C19: from French, based on ( ô辱ٲ ) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ܱ to walk
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"It was completely unacceptable that ambulances were being blocked and millions of commuters were being subjected to hours of delays and misery," he tells me.

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Footage verified by the BBC showed injured people - two wearing blue UN flak jackets - arriving at a hospital in an ambulance and a UN car.

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Three people were airlifted to major trauma centres and four others were taken by ambulance to hospitals in the area, North Wales Police said.

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He recalled being in "agony" for between half an hour and 40 minutes until an air ambulance arrived and he was taken to hospital.

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The ambulances, which are helping to provide care for those in warzones or civilians injured, have been handed over to the charity British-Ukrainian Aid.

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