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bus line

bus line noun: a specific route followed by public buses to transport passengers between designated stops.

Noun

bus line (plural bus lines)

  1. A specific route followed by public buses to transport passengers between designated stops.
    • Long before the street car system was installed here there was a bus line which ran from State street to "Mendsen's carriage factory" once an hour.1912, Josiah Seymour Currey, Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, A Century of Marvelous Growth · Volume 4, page 315
    • As for the distance, he'd have to learn the bus lines, figure out where to transfer downtown.1997, David Simon, Edward Burns, The Corner, A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, page 302
  2. A bus company or service operating those buses along fixed paths.

Forms of bus line

pluralbus lines

Questions about bus line

What does bus line mean?
Bus line means a specific route followed by public buses to transport passengers between designated stops.
What part of speech is bus line?
Bus line is a noun.
What is the plural of bus line?
The plural of bus line is bus lines.

Words near bus line in the dictionary

  1. bus girls
  2. bus kanaka
  3. bus kanakas
  4. bus lane
  5. bus lanes
  6. bus line
  7. bus lines
  8. bus mastering
  9. bus mile
  10. bus miles
  11. bus ministries

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