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Omnibus

//ˈɒmnɪbəs// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing multiple items. not-comparable

    "The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill."

  2. 2
    Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    providing for many things at once wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads). dated

    "In front of the latter [coach-houses for railway carriages] is a handsome building, intended as offices for the clerks of the Company, coach-offices, and apartments for the reception and accommodation of passengers, who will be conveyed thither in omnibusses from Liverpool, and taking their respective places in the travelling carriages, will be let off down the inclined plane of the little Tunnel, to be hooked to the locomotives in the area, on the other side of the hill."

  2. 2
    a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport wordnet
  3. 3
    An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

    "Orb published an omnibus by Hal Clement, Heavy Planet, containing his novels Mission of Gravity and Star Light, plus other related material, and an omnibus of three of James White's "Sector General" novels, Alien Emergencies, as well as a reissue of A[lfred] E[lton] [v]an Vogt's The World of Null-A."

  4. 4
    an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author wordnet
  5. 5
    A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

    "The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11.00."

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  1. 6
    A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

    "[M]any of the African nations issuing the World Cup stamps have pandered to international collectors, with some stamps not even sold in the country of issue. These ‘omnibus’ stamps featured topics and individuals with no links to the issuing country. African stamps displaying Disney themes, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson and Sylvester Stallone all belong to this category."

  2. 7
    An assistant waiter. US, obsolete, slang

    "“Then you divide your army amongst the various houses where restorations are ordered for Jubilee day?” / “Certainly—say one waiter to ten guests—if it was a dinner we should send one waiter to six guests—with runners, of course.” / “Runners?” / “Omnibuses you call them here—young ones—apprentices—who wait on the waiters.” / “Run everywhere, do anything?” / “Omnibuses.” / What a number of omnibuses will be running at that big mansion of Sir Julian Goldsmid’s on Tuesday. M. [Venant] Benoist has undertaken to restore—restore! what an admirable word—a thousand famishing ladies and gentlemen on that day."

  3. 8
    an omnibus box
Verb
  1. 1
    To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package. transitive

    "In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year."

  2. 2
    To drive an omnibus. dated, intransitive

    "I'm two shillings short of usual rainy-day fares, and not a passenger is out, I'm certain—least ways can I see him, if there was. It's nice business, omnibusing is—in summer time!"

  3. 3
    To travel or be transported by omnibus. dated, intransitive

    "[W]hat would not be the effect on the goods, and even on the passenger traffic, of the Grand Junction and London and Birmingham lines, if two miles of the rails were to-morrow taken up through the town of Birmingham, so that the first (good) had all to be carted, and the second (passengers) had all to be omnibused, over the breach! Yet, such is the present state of the communication at Manchester!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

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