Motorbus

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A motorized bus or coach.

    "“[…]a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin,[…]"

  2. 2
    a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport wordnet

Example

More examples

"“[…]a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin,[…]"

Etymology

From motor + bus.

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