autobus

[ˈɔɾə-]

UK: /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/

autobus

English Noun

Definition

A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.

Etymology

From auto- (prefix meaning ‘self’, in the sense of being self-propelled) + bus. Sense 2 (“large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton”) is borrowed from French autobus.