ambulation
noun
ambulation is a noun meaning “Walking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-B-U-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ambulation is ambulations.
What does ambulation mean?
noun
- 1
Walking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ambulation
- ambulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ambulation?
Ambulation appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ambulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense walking:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Spaziergang, Spaziergänge, Umherwandeln, Umherspazieren, Herumwandern, Umherwandern |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does ambulation come from?
Ultimately from Latin ambulātiō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).