Noun: bus
| Singular | bus |
| Plural | buses; busses |
Sample Sentences
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I'm on the bus.
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I can't read on the bus because I get sick.
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“Excuse me,” said the stranger, who turned out to be a youth in motorcycling kit, “but could you give me a hand with my bus?” [1927, Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death:]
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It had to be something with only two cylinders, if the whole ignition was to be put out of action with one needle: that is, a Morgan, a Belsize-Bradshaw, or a motorbike. He probably avoided the bike on the grounds of exposure to weather, and chose the Morgan as the next most handy and numerous two-cylinder ’bus. [1932, Dorothy Sayers, Have His Carcase:]
Nouns inflected like bus
databus,
stage bus,
nonplus,
motor bus,
tour bus,
front-side bus,
microbus,
attrition bias,
portculles,
flue gas,
non-plus,
motorbus,
arquebus,
frontside bus,
poison gas,
schoolbus,
as,
commuter bus,
off-gas,
overplus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der.
3. Proto-Italic *opnis
4. Latin omnis
5. Latin omnibuslbor.
6. French omnibusbor.
7. English omnibusclip.
8. English bus
9. Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
Verbs referencing "bus"
Irish Nouns
bus, Spanish Nouns
bus, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
buss, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
buss, German Nouns
Bus, Hungarian Nouns
busz, Ukrainian Nouns
бус, Zulu Nouns
ibhasi.