Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the two raised stands in early Christian churches from which parts of the service were chanted or read.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In early Christian churches and basilicas, a raised desk or pulpit from which certain parts of the service were read or chanted and sermons were preached. It was often an oblong inclosure with steps at both ends, and was generally richly decorated. It was very common to place two ambos in a church, from one of which was road the gospel, and from the other the epistle. A tall ornamented pillar for holding the paschal candle is sometimes associated with the ambo.
- n. In anatomy, a circumferential fibrocartilage; a fibrocartilaginous ring surrounding an articular cavity, as the glenoid fossa of the scapula and the cotyloid fossa of the innominate bone. Also written ambon.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin, from Greek ambōn, raised edge.
Examples
“The altar, like the ambo is now given greater substantiality and gravitas.”
“I had many opportunities of communicating with the natives of Rumbo, and they have clearly a peculiar dialect, resembling exactly what you mention of substituting the final o for a, as in the word ambo for amba.”
“Plus which, there are a lot more people on duty at casualty than we have and we're dealing with 10 or 20 or 30 times the calls the ambo are.”
“Today, when we refer to "ambo" most would tend to think of a small, podium like structure from whence the gospel is proclaimed, but of course, one also saw much grander structures particularly in certain earlier centuries.”
“The really interesting part of this story here is that the Bishop's appearance at the Basilica in Minneapolis scheduled for March 28 was cancelled according the announcement from the "ambo" boy, do I hate that word that he was ill and his physicians ordered no travelling.”
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““mastabah” or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.”
“mastabah" or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.”
“Re the ambo crews: my mate drives for an on-call doctor.”
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“And ambo crews aren ` t allowed to put a window in to gain access to a patient, right?”
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“I feel very strongly that ALL public servants (including police, ambo, teachers etc) should be allowed to exercise their common Law right of self-defence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ambo’.
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Logolepsy
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Arcades Ambo
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knitandpurl "Writing mixes up the seasons, resolving the usual jumble of hot and cold, summer or winter: it reflects the messiness of the body more than any primordial law: it is chaos more than fiat, a battle of giants meant to obstruct the desire to invent oneself according to some divine order: it is with us, a descent, subterranean, underworld, regression, a groping toward totality: it is the gallery that cuts through the edifice end to end, the ambo breaking up the uniformity of narrative space."
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 43 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback Sep 17, 2011
johnmperry That citation surely refers to an abbreviation of ambulance? Jul 25, 2008
reesetee Ha! Just read that same article, EV. :-) Oct 16, 2007
edwardvielmetti The blue lights of an ambulance and a police car, which were featured in the homeless-people scene, pulsed in the darkness. Simon stood in the middle of it all, and crew members ran up to him with the smallest of questions: Do you like the way they’ve laid out the sleeping bags? What about the way the ambo and the squad car are positioned? (The New Yorker) Oct 16, 2007