Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.

    Sanitäter, Sanitäterin, Rettungssanitäter

    санита́рsanitár, санита́ркаsanitárka, параме́дикparamédik

  2. (US)A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.

    a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment

Examples

74 sentences
  1. I'm a paramedic.

    Я фельдшер.

    deIch bin Sanitäter.

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  2. I work nights as a paramedic.

    ruЯ работаю ночным санитаром.

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  3. The paramedics are on the way.

    deDie Sanitäter sind auf dem Weg.

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  4. Tom wants to be a paramedic.

    ruТом хочет быть фельдшером.

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  5. I want to be a paramedic.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person trained to stabilize people outside of hospital:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person trained to stabilize people outside of hospital:

Origin

From para- + medic.

From para- + medic.

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Forms

plural: paramedics
Singularparamedic
Pluralparamedics

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment:paramedical

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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