omnibus

1. 1.

   providing for many things at once

   “an omnibus law”

   Similarcomprehensive

Other forms of omnibus

plural

omnibuses·

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 omnibus

What does omnibus mean?

omnibus means "an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in omnibus?

omnibus has 3 syllables: om-ni-bus. The stress falls on "om". In IPA it is /ˈɑmnəbəs/.

What is another word for omnibus?

Close synonyms include bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker. 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 omnibus a common word?

omnibus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.