omnibus
omnibus Lexical Profile
omnibus Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Comprising several different items, topics, or legislative measures within a single bill, book, or broadcast.
"Congress debated the massive omnibus spending bill late into the night before the fiscal deadline."
• noun
A single published volume containing several novels, plays, or other works previously published separately.
"The publisher released a hardcover omnibus collecting all three novels in the fantasy trilogy."
A large wheeled public vehicle designed to carry a significant number of passengers along a fixed route; a bus (now chiefly historical or formal).
"In nineteenth-century London, the horse-drawn omnibus transformed daily commuting for the working class."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 1820s from French 'voiture omnibus' ('carriage for all'), taken directly from the Latin dative plural of 'omnis' ('all'). The everyday English word 'bus' originated as a clipped form of its dative ending '-bus'.