omnibus

See also Omnibus

English

Etymology

From Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɒmniˌbʌs/

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Noun

Wikipedia omnibus (plural omnibuses or omnibi)

1. (dated) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
   • 1911, E. M. Forster, The Celestial Omnibus

     "Please, is that an omnibus?" / "Omnibus est," said the driver, without turning round.

   • 1959, Michael Flanders, At the Drop of a Hat

     Omnibus, my friend Mr. Swann informs me, comes from the Latin omnibus, meaning to or for by with or from everybody, which is a very good description. Well, this song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled - I thought of this - 'A Transport of Delight'.

   • 1988, Rowan Atkinson as Ebenezer Blackadder in "Blackadder's Christmas Carol", written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

     Baldrick, I want you to take this [money] and go out, and buy a turkey so large you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.

2. An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
3. A broadcast program consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

   The omnibus edition of "The Archers" is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11.00.

4. (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

Derived terms

• bus

Translations

vehicle

• Bulgarian: омнибус (bg) (omnibus) m, автобус (bg) (avtobus) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公車 (cmn), 公共汽車 (cmn), 巴士 (cmn)

• Czech: autobus (cs)
• Dutch: bus (nl)
• Faroese: bussur (fo) m
• Finnish: linja-auto (fi)
• French: omnibus (fr) m, bus (fr) m
• German: Omnibus (de) m, Bus (de) m

• Hungarian: omnibusz (hu), autóbusz (hu)
• Icelandic: strætó (is) m
• Interlingua: omnibus (ia), autobus (ia), bus (ia)
• Italian: autobus (it) m
• Japanese: 乗合バス (ja) (のりあいばす, noriaibasu)
• Portuguese: ônibus (pt) m
• Romanian: autobuz (ro) n
• Russian: автобус (ru) (aftóbus) m
• Spanish: autobús (es) m

book

• Bulgarian: сборник (bg) (sbórnik) m
• Interlingua: compilation (ia)

• Portuguese: compilação (pt) f
• Spanish: compilación (es) f

television programme/program

• Irish: ollchlár (ga) m

Adjective

omnibus (not comparable)

1. Containing multiple items.

   The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.

Translations

containing multiple items

• Bulgarian: всеобхватен (bg) (vseobhváten)

• Finnish: kertaus, yhteenveto, kaikki jaksot (fi)

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French

Adjective

omnibus (invariable)

1. (rail transport, of a train) Pertaining to a local (making stops at all stations)

   Un train omnibus.

Noun

omnibus m (plural omnibus)

1. (dated) omnibus, bus (especially, a 19th-century horse-drawn omnibus)

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Latin

Adjective

omnibus

1. dative masculine plural of omnis
2. dative feminine plural of omnis
3. dative neuter plural of omnis
4. ablative masculine plural of omnis
5. ablative feminine plural of omnis
6. ablative neuter plural of omnis