ambulance
noun /ˈæmbjələns/
/ˈæmbjələns/
- a vehicle with special equipment, used for taking sick or injured people to a hospital
- Call an ambulance!
- the ambulance service
- The ambulance crew rushed her to the hospital.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryb2, Medicineb2- An ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident.
- Don't worry—the ambulance is on its way.
- He was put into an ambulance and taken away.
- He went in the ambulance with Lizzy.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- air
- field
- land
- …
- call (for)
- get
- phone (for)
- …
- be on its way
- arrive
- come
- …
- service
- crew
- personnel
- …
- by ambulance
- in an/the ambulance
Word Originearly 19th cent.: French, from hôpital ambulant ‘mobile (horse-drawn) field hospital’, from Latin ambulant- ‘walking’, from ambulare.
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- accident
- ambulance
- casualty
- first aid
- hospital
- injure
- paramedic
- stretcher
- victim
- witness