bus
bus
/bʌs/
(plural buses, US English also busses)
1 a large road vehicle that carries passengers, especially one that travels along a fixed route and stops regularly to let people get on and off
by bus Shall we walk or go by bus?
I didn't want to get on the wrong bus.
Many students board the school bus before 7 a.m.
He was seriously injured when the band's tour bus crashed.
I was going to catch the airport shuttle bus.
(US English) I ride the city bus every day.
a bus company/driver
A regular bus service connects the train station with the town centre.
He can't afford the bus fare into the city.
I left work a bit late and had to run for my bus.
I missed the last bus and had to walk.
I waited 40 minutes for a bus.
Is this the bus for Oxford?
It's about 15 minutes away by bus.
Local buses run regularly to and from the campus.
Look up the bus schedule on the internet.
Look up the bus times in the local timetable.
The bus left the city, heading north.
The bus pulled up and we got on.
The buses stop outside the post office.
The double-decker bus stopped to pick up some more passengers.
There are regular buses to the beach.
We took the bus from Reading to Bristol.
a bus carrying 56 passengers
a four-hour bus journey over the mountains
a short bus journey to work
people travelling on buses
people who travel on buses
the bus from Charlottesville to Union Station
the bus into town
Have you got a bus timetable?
It's a short bus ride from here.
The map shows all the local bus routes.
There is a bus, the number 18, which stops outside the house.
When we go on a double-decker bus the children always want to sit upstairs.
Collocations
adjective
verb + bus
go by
go on
ride…
bus + verb
bus + noun
preposition
by bus
on a/the bus
bus for…
2 (computing) a set of wires that carries information from one part of a computer system to another
Idioms
bus
/bʌs/
1 bus somebody (from/to…) to transport somebody by bus
We were bussed from the airport to our hotel.
2 bus somebody (in the US) to transport young people by bus to another area as a way of integrating schools (= having them educate black and white children together)
3 bus something (North American English) to take the dirty plates, etc. off the tables in a restaurant, as a job
He buses tables to help finance his tuition.
Word Origin
early 19th cent.: shortening of omnibus.