airbus

See also: Airbus

English

Etymology

From air +‎ bus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɹ.bʌs/

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Noun

airbus (plural airbusses or airbuses)

1. A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954:

     Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.

Translations

a type of airliner

• Faroese: luftbussur f
• Italian: aerobus (it) m
• Polish: aerobus (pl) m
• Romanian: aerobuz n
• Russian: аэро́бус (ru) m (aeróbus)
• Spanish: aerobús (es) m

Anagrams

• Burias, ruba'is, rubais