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noun / verb

bus

BUS/bʌs/

A large road vehicle for carrying passengers.

The city bus has rows of passenger windows and an open boarding door.

Large city bus in clean side-three-quarter view with multiple passenger windows and open boarding door, three small seated silhouettes inside; no route text, logos or city backdrop.
Etymology
busFrenchpublic passenger carriage

Bus shortens omnibus, the name of a public passenger carriage. Omnibus meant “for all,” expressing the shared, public character of the vehicle rather than a private carriage.

In context

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How many others made it off the bus? Seven when I left. Seven. Meredith Cole? She's hurt, but she's tough. You know her? I've been trying to catch up with her.
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More examples

  • We took the bus into town.
  • They bused visitors from the parking lot.
  • Several buses waited outside the stadium.

Forms

bus · buses · bused · bussed · busing · bussing

Similar words

coach
Usually a larger bus for longer-distance or charter travel.
shuttle
Often a vehicle making short repeated trips between fixed points.