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語源

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/, /ˈæm.bə.ləns/
• (African-American Vernacular, also Southern 米国発音) IPA: /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/, /ˈæm.bəˌlæns/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈamb(j)ʊləns/
• ハイフネーション: am‧bu‧lance

名詞

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [from 1854]

   Synonyms: (slang) band-aid buggy, (slang) blood box, (slang) body box, (slang) bone box, (slang) meat wagon

   • 2025 December 12, Tobi Thomas, Denis Campbell, “NHS bracing for worst ever winter crisis in next fortnight amid rising flu cases”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [from 1798]
3. (UK) A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.

   Synonym: private ambulance

4. (chiefly UK, obsolete) Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
5. (US, obsolete) Synonym of covered wagon. [from late 19th c.]

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動詞

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.
   • 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:

     Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

参照

Further reading

• “ambulance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “ambulance, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 171, column 2.
• “ambulance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ambulance, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 171, column 2.