ambulatory
Meanings
Plural: ambulatories
Noun
- a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
- "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
- The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
- Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
Adjective
- relating to or adapted for walking
- "an ambulatory corridor"
Adjective Satellite
- able to walk about
- "the patient is ambulatory"
Adj
- Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- Able to walk about and not bedridden.
- Performed on or involving an outpatient.
- Relating to ambulances.
- Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
- Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory.
Synonyms
ambulant, ambulatory, animate, astir, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive, movable, up and about, vagile
Scrabble Score: 17
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