Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A passenger bus that is powered by a motor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An automobile omnibus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a road vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; an omnibus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A motorised
bus , orcoach
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
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Examples
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I squeeze between a motorbus and a stalled motorized taxi, am almost flattened by a horse-drawn cart laden with fat hessian sacks.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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I squeeze between a motorbus and a stalled motorized taxi, am almost flattened by a horse-drawn cart laden with fat hessian sacks.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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Halfway to Lodz the windshield fell onto the driver and the motorbus plunged into a drainage culvert and rolled onto its side.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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The sweaty Americans were ushered onto a motorbus with cracks in the windshield.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then a train north; then an antique motorbus upholstered with violet velvet; then a wet cabin cruiser forty miles up a black river into the silver moorlands of Lapland.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then a train north; then an antique motorbus upholstered with violet velvet; then a wet cabin cruiser forty miles up a black river into the silver moorlands of Lapland.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then a train north; then an antique motorbus upholstered with violet velvet; then a wet cabin cruiser forty miles up a black river into the silver moorlands of Lapland.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Halfway to Lodz the windshield fell onto the driver and the motorbus plunged into a drainage culvert and rolled onto its side.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Halfway to Lodz the windshield fell onto the driver and the motorbus plunged into a drainage culvert and rolled onto its side.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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The sweaty Americans were ushered onto a motorbus with cracks in the windshield.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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