airbus en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From air + bus.
Meanings
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A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
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.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| airbusses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| airbuses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (6)
it aerobus (a type of airliner) · ru аэро́бус (a type of airliner) · es aerobús (a type of airliner) · ro aerobuz (a type of airliner) · fo luftbussur (a type of airliner) · pl aerobus (a type of airliner)