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# omnibus

«omnibus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A book or TV programme that puts several stories or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an omnibus, omnibuses); adjective (an omnibus edition)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A book or TV programme that puts several stories or episodes together in one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#m1)

2) (old) A bus; «bus» is short for omnibus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#m2)

3) (adjective, formal) Covering many things at once: an omnibus bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you may see the «Sunday omnibus» of a TV show (all the week's episodes together) or an omnibus book of a whole series. In history lessons, the omnibus was a horse-drawn bus. Phrases: omnibus edition.

### examples

- Grandma watches the omnibus of her favourite soap on Sundays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x1)
- I got an omnibus of all three dragon books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x2)
- The first omnibuses were pulled by horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x3)
- «Bus» is short for omnibus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x4)
- The omnibus edition is three hours long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x5)
- The library has an omnibus of fairy tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x6)
- Carriages and omnibuses are crowded, stuffed and embroidered with people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/#x7)

### note

Plural: omnibuses. From Latin meaning «for all». Mostly old or formal; today we say bus. Not a maths word, though an omnibus edition adds up several episodes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «omnibus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnibus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.