German

Noun

Omnibus m ‎(genitive Omnibusses, plural Omnibusse)

1. omnibus

Declension

Synonyms

• Autobus, Bus

English

Noun

omnibus ‎(plural omnibuses or omnibusses or omnibi)

1. (dated) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:

     Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

   • 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 programme 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

Adjective

omnibus ‎(not comparable)

1. Containing multiple items.

   The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.

Translations

Verb

omnibus ‎(third-person singular simple present omnibuses or omnibusses, present participle omnibusing or omnibussing, simple past and past participle omnibused or omnibussed)

1. (transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

omnibus m, f ‎(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)

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
   • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III

     amor omnibvs idem

     Sex is the same for all of them [viz., every form of man, beast, aquatic or winged life, and livestock]

Noun

omnibus n pl

1. dative of omnia
2. ablative of omnia