Definition of ambulatory
- ambulatory patients
- ambulatory medical care
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory exercise
- an ambulatory conversation
- for years led an ambulatory life
- a will is ambulatory until the testator's death
ambulatory theatrical companies that brought live theater to small towns across America
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First Known Use: 1598
in the meaning defined at sense 2
See Words from the same yearambulant, errant, fugitive, gallivanting (also galavanting), itinerant, nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring;
on the move;
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First Known Use: circa 1616
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same year
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