ambulant
Americanadjective
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moving about from place to place
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med another word for ambulatory
Other Word Forms
- unambulant adjective
Etymology
Origin of ambulant
First recorded in 1645–55; from French , from Latin ambulant- (stem of ambulāns, present participle of ambulāre “to walk”); see origin at amble
Example Sentences
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Kieran O'Hara won the men's 1500m ambulant in 4:03.70, with Kyle Brotherton winning the wheelchair event in 3:56.16.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025
PT2-5: These classes are for ambulant athletes whose impairments include loss of muscle strength, range of movement and loss of limbs.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2021
He, the ambulant id, must nurse his own offspring, and feel their teeth.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
They also echo the futuristic fantasies of the 1960s architectural dreamers Archigram, in particular their proposal for a Walking City in which ambulant megastructures would stalk the Earth.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013
Ahead of him, emerging from the wood in the dusk like a cluster of ambulant stars, came a herd of unicorns.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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