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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a covered walkway (as in a cloister);
- Example: "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. relating to or adapted for walking;
- Example: "an ambulatory corridor"

2. able to walk about;
- Example: "the patient is ambulatory"
[syn: ambulant, ambulatory]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, a. [L. ambulatorius.] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.] [1913 Webster] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, n.; pl. Ambulatories. [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.] (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ambulatory adj 1: relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory corridor" 2: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: ambulant, ambulatory] n 1: a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "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