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AMBULANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ambulance mean?
• AMBULANCE (noun)
The noun AMBULANCE has 1 sense:
1. a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals
Familiarity information: AMBULANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("ambulance" is a kind of...):
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambulance"):
funny wagon (an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital)
Context examples
EXAMPLE(S): The license plate number of an ambulance; An identifier for a bed in a hospital ward
(Place Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): ambulance, helicopter, manufacturing site, service delivery location, home, emergency department, surgical suite, patient room.
(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
She must have broken her rule against drinking that night for when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone to Flushing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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