Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A motorcoach; a bus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An automobile omnibus; a vehicle propelled by its own motor and capable of carrying a dozen or more passengers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
bus that is amotor vehicle , as opposed to earlierhorse-drawn buses. - noun cycling The
group ofcyclists in arace who form a large group behind the leadingpeloton .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
Etymologies
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Examples
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With "Bike Month" having long since dropped back to the "autobus" of memory, it's been quite some time since a mainstream newspaper has published an article about "cycle chic."
Parroting: Continual Conversations with the Road BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Not really sure ... will be arriving via 'autobus'.
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Not really sure ... will be arriving via 'autobus'.
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Today all three finished in the "autobus", the group of about 60 non-climbers or pedalling wounded who traipsed in almost 37 minutes behind the leaders, exhausted and sweating profusely at the end of a long, hot day in the mountains.
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I hear camion for bus in Ajijic but down in Chiapas it is autobus. tashby
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I hear camion for bus in Ajijic but down in Chiapas it is autobus.
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I hear camion for bus in Ajijic but down in Chiapas it is autobus.
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Italiano · Bubisher, un autobus colmo di libri per i bambini del Sahara Occidentale
Global Voices in English » Bubisher: A Bus of Books for Children in Western Sahara 2009
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Français · Équateur: Un braquage ordinaire dans un autobus de Guayaquil
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: Reactions After a Bus Robbery in Guayaquil 2009
tonytam commented on the word autobus
In pro cycling, this is the back of the pack which is just inside the time cutoff
July 13, 2010