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Ambo

//ˈæm.bəʊ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.

    "‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest."

  2. 2
    An ambulance driver. informal
  3. 3
    An ambassador. slang

    "The Ambo needed a sizable embassy support staff to hold his hand at every step of the way, […]"

  4. 4
    a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it wordnet
  5. 5
    A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

    "The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern."

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  1. 6
    An ambulance. informal

    "Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Etymology 2

Clipping of ambulance + -o.

Etymology 3

Clipping of ambassador + -o.

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