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Autobus

//ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses. dated
  2. 2
    a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport wordnet
  3. 3
    A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race. broadly

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.

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