ambulance
- noun
- B1
- Top 5000
A special vehicle with flashing lights and a loud siren that carries ill or badly hurt people to hospital as fast as possible.
Somebody call an ambulance, this man has stopped breathing!
An ambulance raced past us with its siren wailing loudly.
Drivers pulled over to let the ambulance through the crowded street.
Two paramedics lifted the stretcher carefully into the waiting ambulance.
Common collocations: call an ambulance · wait for an ambulance · by ambulance · ambulance crew · ambulance siren
Part of: Means of transport, At the doctor's, Illnesses and symptoms