am·bu·lance

(ăm′byə-ləns)

A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.

[French, from (hôpital) ambulant, mobile (hospital), from Latin ambulāns, ambulant-, present participle of ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ambulance

(ˈæmbjʊləns)

a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people

[C19: from French, based on (hôpital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulāre to walk]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

am•bu•lance

(ˈæm byə ləns)

n.

1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usu. to a hospital.

2. (formerly) a field hospital.

[1800–10; < French, = (hôpital) ambul(ant) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant]

ambulance

- Once brought the hospital to the patient—and kept the name when it reversed the process and started bringing the patients to the hospital; its original meaning was "mobile hospital following an army."

ambulance

[ˈæmbjʊləns]

A. N → ambulancia f

B. CPD ambulance chaser N (esp US) (pej) abogado sin escrúpulos a la caza de personas accidentadas cuyos casos reporten jugosos beneficios
ambulance driver N → conductor/a m/f de ambulancia, ambulanciero m
ambulance man N → ambulanciero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ambulance

[ˈæmbjʊləns] n → ambulance f
to call an ambulance → appeler une ambulance
by ambulance → en ambulance ambulance service, ambulance crew, ambulance driverambulance chaser n avocat recherchant des victimes d'accidents pour les inciter à engager des poursuites judiciairesambulance chasing n fait pour un avocat de rechercher des victimes d'accidents pour les inciter à engager des poursuites judiciairesambulance crew n → ambulanciers mplambulance driver n → ambulancier/ière m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ambulance

n → Krankenwagen m, → Krankenauto nt, → Ambulanz f; ambulance chasing (US Jur) in den USA verbreitete Praxis von Anwälten, Opfer eines Verbrechens oder Unfalles aufzusuchen und sie zu einer Klage zu veranlassen

ambulance

ambulance driver

n → Krankenwagenfahrer(in) m(f)

ambulanceman

n → Sanitäter m

ambulance service

n → Rettungs- or Ambulanzdienst m; (system) → Rettungswesen nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ambulance

[ˈæmbjʊləns]

1. n → ambulanza, autoambulanza

2. adj ambulance driver → guidatore/trice d'ambulanza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ambulance

(ˈӕmbjuləns) noun

a vehicle for carrying the sick and injured to hospital etc. Call an ambulance – this man is very ill!

ambulance ends in -ance (not -ence).

ambulance

→ سَيَّارَةُ إِسْعاف sanitka ambulance Rettungswagen ασθενοφόρο ambulancia ambulanssi ambulance kola hitne pomoći ambulanza 救急車 구급차 ambulance ambulanse karetka pogotowia ambulância машина скорой помощи ambulans รถพยาบาล cankurtaran xe cứu thương 救护车

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

am·bu·lance

n. ambulancia.

Call an ambulance → Zavolejte ambulanci → Tilkald en ambulance → Rufen Sie einen Krankenwagen → Pida una ambulancia → Soittakaa ambulanssi → Appelez une ambulance → Zovite hitnu pomoć → Chiamate un'ambulanza → 救急車を呼んでください → 구급차를 불러 주세요 → Bel een ambulance → Ring etter sykebil → Proszę wezwać karetkę → Chame uma ambulância → Вызовите скорую → Ring efter en ambulans → Ambulans çağırın → Gọi xe cứu thương đi → 叫救护车

ambulance

n ambulancia

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