- 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.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1, Transport by bus and traina1- 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.
- I looked up the bus schedule on my phone.
- Check bus times before setting off.
- 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
- The bus timetable must have changed.
- 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- regular
- shuttle
- double-decker
- …
- go by
- go on
- ride
- …
- go
- run
- arrive
- …
- schedule
- times
- timetable
- …
- by bus
- on a/the bus
- bus for
- …
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- (computing) a set of wires that carries information from one part of a computer system to anotherTopics Computersc2
Word Originearly 19th cent.: shortening of omnibus.
Idioms
See bus in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bus in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthrow somebody under the bus (informal)
- to make somebody else suffer in order to save yourself or gain an advantage for yourself
- Plenty of my co-workers are satisfied to throw everyone else under the bus as long as they keep their wages.
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