Noun: ambulance
| Singular | ambulance |
| Plural | ambulances |
Sample Sentences
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The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain. [2025 December 12, Tobi Thomas, Denis Campbell, “NHS bracing for worst ever winter crisis in next fortnight amid rising flu cases”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like ambulance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
6. Proto-Italic *amβi-
7. Latin ambi-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der.
9. Proto-Italic *alō
10. Latin *alō
11. Latin ambulō
12. Proto-Indo-European *-onts
13. Latin -ns
14. Latin ambulānsbor.
15. French ambulant
16. ▲
17. Latin -ns
18. Latin -āns
19. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
20. Proto-Italic *-ijos
21. Proto-Italic *-ios
22. Old Latin -ios
23. Latin -ius
24. Latin -ia
25. Latin -āntia
26. Old French -ance
27. Middle French -ance
28. French -ance
29. French ambulancebor.
30. English ambulance
31. Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”). See: French Nouns '
ambulance', Latin Nouns '
ambulō'.