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motor bus

motor bus is the alternative form of motorbus.

Meaning of motorbus

Noun

motorbus (plural motorbuses or motorbusses)

  1. A motorized bus or coach.
    • “[…]a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin,[…]1912, Pearson’s Magazine, page 753

Forms of motor bus

pluralmotor buses
pluralmotor busses

Questions about motor bus

What is motor bus the alternative form of?
Motor bus is the alternative form of motorbus.

Words near motor bus in the dictionary

  1. motor bancas
  2. motor boat
  3. motor boats
  4. motor bogie
  5. motor bogies
  6. motor bus
  7. motor buses
  8. motor busses
  9. motor car
  10. motor caravan
  11. motor caravans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: motor bus (page history and authors); motorbus (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.

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