autobus

Meaning

1. A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
2. A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.

Synonyms

bus

🚌

omnibus

coach

motorcoach

passenger vehicle

charabanc

jitney

double-decker

motorbus

motor bus

Hyphenated as

au‧to‧bus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/

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.