omnibus
Meaning
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- A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).
- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
- A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
Synonyms
motor bus
passenger vehicle
auto bus
Frequency
Hyphenated as
om‧ni‧bus
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɒmnɪbəs/
Etymology
Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
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