Meanings
nounair ambulance (plural air ambulances)
plural air ambulances
- An aircraft (especially a form of helicopter) equipped as an ambulance.
An air ambulance hovered overhead before landing on the track. Frank held his father’s hand through the wreckage, as the firemen tried to cut him out of the car.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
Translations
Dutch traumahelikopter
- traumahelikopteran aircraft equipped as an ambulance
German Sanitätsflugzeug, Rettungshubschrauber
- Sanitätsflugzeugan aircraft equipped as an ambulance
- Rettungshubschrauberan aircraft equipped as an ambulance
Icelandic sjúkraþyrla
- sjúkraþyrlaan aircraft equipped as an ambulance
Italian aeroambulanza
- aeroambulanzaan aircraft equipped as an ambulance
Cite this entry
APA
air ambulance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air%20ambulance
MLA
“air ambulance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air%20ambulance. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “air ambulance,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air%20ambulance.
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