Autobus
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses. dated
- 2 a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport wordnet
- 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.