school bus

See also: schoolbus

English

A United States school bus

Alternative forms

• schoolbus, school-bus

Etymology

Compound of school +‎ bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskuːl.bʌs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

school bus (plural school buses or school busses)

1. (automotive) A bus which carries children to or from school.

   Synonym: yellow bus

   Hyponym: short bus

2. (metrology, informal) An informal approximate unit of measure, from the length of a typical public school bus, approximately 30 feet or 9 metres.

   Coordinate terms: city bus, London bus

Related terms

• school bus yellow
• walking school bus

Translations

transport for schoolchildren

• Afrikaans: skoolbus
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: məktəb avtobusu
• Belarusian: школьны аўтобус m (škólʹny awtóbus)
• Catalan: autobús escolar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 校車 / 校车 (haau⁶ ce¹), 校巴 (haau⁶ baa¹)

  Mandarin: 校車 / 校车 (zh) (xiàochē)

• Czech: školní autobus m
• Danish: skolebus (da) c
• Dutch: schoolbus (nl) m
• Estonian: koolibuss
• Finnish: koulubussi (fi)
• French: autobus scolaire (fr) m, bus scolaire (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: skoalbus c

• Georgian: სასკოლო ავტობუსი (sasḳolo avṭobusi)
• German: Schulbus (de) m
• Hindi: स्कूल बस f (skūl bas), विद्यालय बस f (vidyalay bas)
• Hungarian: iskolabusz (hu)
• Iban: bas sekula
• Icelandic: skólabíll m, skólavagn m
• Indonesian: bus sekolah (id)
• Italian: scuolabus (it) m, pulmino m
• Japanese: スクールバス (ja) (sukūru basu)
• Korean: 통학 버스 (tonghak beoseu), 학교 버스 (hakgyo beoseu), 스쿨버스 (ko) (seukulbeoseu)
• Lithuanian: mokyklinis autobusas m
• Malay: bas sekolah
• Mongolian: сургуулийн автобус (surguuliin avtobus)
• Navajo: chidíłtsoii, chidíłtsxooí, chidí áłchíní bee naagéhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skolebuss m

  Nynorsk: skolebuss m, skulebuss m

• Persian: اتوبوس مدرسه
• Polish: autobus szkolny m
• Portuguese: ônibus escolar (Brazil), autocarro escolar m (Portugal)
• Russian: шко́льный авто́бус (ru) m (škólʹnyj avtóbus)
• Sanskrit: शालाबसयानम् n (śālābasayanam)
• Sindhi: اسڪول بس (āskol bs)
• Spanish: autobús escolar m
• Swedish: skolbuss (sv) c
• Turkish: okul servisi, servis (tr), okul otobüsü
• Ukrainian: шкільний автобус m (škilʹnyj avtobus)
• Welsh: bws ysgol
• Yiddish: שולבוס (shulbus)

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