ambulant
- adjective
- /ˈæm.bjʊ.lənt/
- Specialized
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ambulante
- Since the present study included only ambulant children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy, our study population was relatively homogeneous.
- only ambulant
Examples
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This study included 4- to 9-year-old children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy who were ambulant and classified as gross motor function level III.
Academic text (2015) -
A living person is only an ambulant corpse if his life is not animated by a spirit that is distinctively his; a society is dead if it is not permeated by a common purpose.
Academic text (1997) -
Plants find ways to be ambulant (root growth, seed distribution).
Academic text (2017) -
I was more or less ambulant; they taught me how to use a treadle jigsaw.
Fiction book (1990) -
By dint of their Chinea-related work, many lucky souls had no need to buy from ambulant salesmen, but instead laid claim to free portions of salami and cheese.
Academic text (1995) -
The Master controls his elephant with a goad, and we admire this miracle, wavering before our table like an ambulant land mass, wrinkling, monstrous, mud-scarred, grieved.
Fiction book (1995) -
Before the anonymous canon entered the community of Watten in the late 1080s (certainly before the end of 1088), he also spent time in Reims following a career as an ambulant cleric in the service of the Count of Flanders.
Academic text (2018) -
After his surgery, he was ambulant and could walk around the house without assistance.
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The clinic is designed for ambulant patients who do not require wheelchair assistance.
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During the rehabilitation, the therapist encouraged the ambulant patients to regain their strength.
Synonyms
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Able to walk and not kept in bed
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A mild form of plague that allows the sick person to move and shows only light symptoms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ambulant = ambulate (opaque) = ambul + ant
The element 'ambul-' is a Latin combining form meaning 'walk' but is not a productive or recognizable English base for an average B1 learner, so the word's form does not transparently reveal 'walk'.
Etymology
The word ambulant comes from the Latin ambulare, which means 'to walk', and you can see the same root in the everyday word amble and in ambulance. So ambulant describes someone who can walk about and is not confined to bed.