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Ambulant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Moving or walking about.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Able to walk.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Walking; moving from place to place.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Walking; moving from place to place; shifting.

In heraldry, walking: said of a beast used as a bearing.

In pathology, shifting about from place to place; ambulatory: as, ambulant edema.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. able to walk about

Word Usage

"The Asclepiades treated patients in the temples, but the Pythagoreans visited from house to house, and from city to city, and were known as the ambulant or periodic physicians."

Equivalent

mobile

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

walking

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