Word.ws English Dictionary

London bus

London bus noun: a unit of length, approximately 30 feet or 8⅓ metres.

london bus: a unit of length, approximately 30 feet or 8⅓ metres
Image: Calreyn88, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

London bus (plural London buses)

  1. (London, informal) A unit of length, approximately 30 feet or 8⅓ metres
  2. (London, informal) A unit of width, approximately 8 feet or 2½ metres
  3. (informal) A double-decker bus
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see London, bus.

Forms of London bus

pluralLondon buses

Origin of London bus

From the classic Routemaster double-decker bus used by London public transit, a common sight to a Londoner.

Questions about London bus

What does London bus mean?
London bus means a unit of length, approximately 30 feet or 8⅓ metres.
What part of speech is London bus?
London bus is a noun.
What is the plural of London bus?
The plural of London bus is London buses.

Words near London bus in the dictionary

  1. Londo
  2. London
  3. London Bridge
  4. London broil
  5. London broils
  6. London bus
  7. London City
  8. London Clay
  9. London Colney
  10. London dispersion force
  11. London dispersion forces

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: London bus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “London bus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/london_bus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.