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- pronunciation:
- aem
by
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to
ri
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
able to walk about.
This ward of the hospital has mostly ambulatory patients.It was at least six weeks before she was ambulatory again.- synonyms:
- walking
- antonyms:
- bedridden
- similar words:
- mobile, moving, pedestrian
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| definition 2: |
moving from place to place.
He had an ambulatory business which brought him up north at certain times of the year.- synonyms:
- itinerant, migratory, peripatetic, wayfaring
- similar words:
- nomadic, rambling, shifting, vagrant, wandering
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| definition 3: |
related to walking.
They sell ambulatory devices such as walkers and canes. |
adverb + (adj.)ambulatory
barely, completely, example, fully, part, successfully
(adj.)ambulatory
+ noun
aids,
basis,
board,
care,
center,
chemotherapy,
classification,
clinic,
control,
demand,
disease,
emergency,
expansion,
facility,
foot,
fracture,
function,
gap,
health,
health-care,
hospital,
human,
impairment,
inpatient,
mastectomies,
medicine,
model,
monitor,
monitoring,
network,
nurse,
one,
organization,
outpatient,
patient,
pediatrics,
preadmission,
prevention,
procedure,
psychology,
recovery,
rehabilitation,
resident,
rotation,
rumination,
sci,
service,
setting,
shift,
slime,
status,
stay,
stress,
subject,
surgery,
survey,
testing,
therapy,
threshold,
training,
treatment,
unit,
variable,
variety,
vision,
visit,
wheelchair
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
ambulatories |
| definition 1: |
in architecture, a covered walkway in a cloister.
- synonyms:
- passageway, walkway
- similar words:
- corridor, hallway, passage
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| definition 2: |
in architecture, an aisle around the end of a church's choir section.
- similar words:
- aisle
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| related words: |
gallery |
The word ambulatory
contains the following parts:
amb, ambl, ambul
Latin
root
that means walk
  Example words:
-ory, -atory2
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means serving to, pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -ory
, -atory2 attaches to Latin verb roots to form adjectives. Adjectives ending in "-atory
" tend to have corresponding verbs ending in "-ate" (congratulatory: congratulate).
Example words:
accusatory, advisory, aleatory, amatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, auditory, commendatory, compulsory, conciliatory, cursory, dextrorotatory, ejaculatory, exclamatory, exploratory, illusory, mandatory, obligatory, perfunctory, placatory, preparatory, refractory, respiratory, satisfactory, sensory, transitory
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