Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: omnibus
IPA transcription: ['ɑmnəbəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: omnibus(a)
    Meaning: providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law"
Usage examples
  • As they neared the old Omnibus House they could see no one about.
  • The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels, and with no compartments in the interior.
  • They were met at the gate by Julia and four other seniors, and the whole party set out for the Omnibus House without delay.
  • "This morning I overheard certain girls planning to go out to the Omnibus House after school to-morrow and dig up the poor hatchet and flaunt it in the seniors' faces the day of the opening basketball game, simply to rattle us.
  • "Our luggage," explained Rickie, "comes in the hotel omnibus, if you would kindly pay a shilling for mine." Ansell turned aside to some large lighted windows, the abode of a hospitable don, and from other windows there floated familiar voices and the familiar mistakes in a Beethoven sonata.