Definitions for ambulance

ambulance am·bu·lance

Spelling: [am-byuh-luh ns]
IPA: /ˈæm byə ləns/

Ambulance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in ambulance (aabcelmnu).

Definitions for ambulance

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.

Origin of ambulance

1800-10; French, equivalent to (hôpital) ambul(ant) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant

Examples for ambulance

Ramos was still showing no signs of life when they got him on a backboard and into the ambulance.

By the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.

He has joined an ambulance corps that is going to the Front.

He was a surgeon-major, and was wearing the ambulance badge on his sleeve.

That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.

He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.

He had been brought in unconscious, in an ambulance conveyance.

Scarcely a night went by without its patrol or ambulance case.

At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.

On December 20 three of these unfortunate women were brought into the ambulance.

Word Value for ambulance
Scrable

15

Words with friends

21

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