ambulatory

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: am=bu=la=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

ambulatory, a. [L. ambulatorius.].

•  Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.  [1913 Webster]
•  Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.  [1913 Webster]

  "The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families."  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to a walk.  [1913 Webster]

  "The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.  [1913 Webster]

ambulatory, n. [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.].

 A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ambulatory, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 = AMBULANT.
2 of or adapted for walking.
3 a movable. b not permanent.
--n. (pl. -ies) a place for walking, esp. an aisle or cloister in a church or monastery.

Etymology

L ambulatorius f. ambulare walk

THESAURUS

ambulatory

access, aisle, alley, ambulant, ambulative, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, channel, circuit-riding, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, defile, exit, expeditionary, ferry, ford, gallery, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, inlet, interchange, intersection, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, junction, lane, locomotive, moving, mundivagant, nomadic, on tour, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, portico, progressing, railroad tunnel, roving, strolling, touring, touristic, touristy, traject, trajet, traveling, trekking, tunnel, underpass, vagabond, vagrant, walking, wayfaring

ROGET THESAURUS

ambulatory

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.