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motor omnibus

motor omnibus noun: a bus.

Noun

motor omnibus (plural motor omnibuses)

  1. (archaic, historical) A bus.
    • How did she know that at this very moment both her children were not lying dead, crushed by motor omnibuses?1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XVII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
    • The tyres of motor omnibuses, it was said, were punctured.1955 May 9, The Times, page 9

Forms of motor omnibus

pluralmotor omnibuses

Questions about motor omnibus

What does motor omnibus mean?
Motor omnibus means a bus.
What part of speech is motor omnibus?
Motor omnibus is a noun.
What is the plural of motor omnibus?
The plural of motor omnibus is motor omnibuses.

Words near motor omnibus in the dictionary

  1. motor neurons
  2. motor octane number
  3. motor octane numbers
  4. motor oil
  5. motor oils
  6. motor omnibus
  7. motor omnibuses
  8. motor plow
  9. motor plows
  10. motor pool
  11. motor pools

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