bus

1. 1.

   send or move around by bus

   “The children were bussed to school”

   Broadertransport
2. 2.

   ride in a bus

   Broaderride
3. 3.

   remove used dishes from the table in restaurants

   Broadertake away

Other forms of bus

plural

busses

past tense

bused·

present participle

busing·

third person

buses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bus

What does bus mean?

bus means "a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bus?

bus has 1 syllable: bus. In IPA it is /ˈbʌs/.

What is another word for bus?

Close synonyms include autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bus a common word?

bus is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bus?

2 words rhyme with bus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.