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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Not really sure ... will be arriving via 'autobus'.
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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."
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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
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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
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