autobus
Meanings
Plural: autobuses, autobusses
Noun
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
- A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
Origin / Etymology
From auto- (prefix meaning ‘self’, in the sense of being self-propelled) + bus. Sense 2 (“large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton”) is borrowed from French autobus.
Synonyms
bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, groupetto, gruppetto, jitney, laughing group, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle
Scrabble Score: 9
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