autobus
Plural: autobuses, autobusses
Noun
- A bus, especially in continental Europe.
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
- A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
Examples
- He loaded up the board with AUTOBUS, scoring with all seven tiles.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle, groupetto, gruppetto, laughing group
Scrabble Score: 9
autobus: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordautobus: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
autobus: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary