omnibus

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At this point, the only important content missing from the omnibus is the series of prose journal entries that sometimes replaced the monthly book's letter column.

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  1. noun A long motor vehicle for passengers; a bus.
  2. noun A printed anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects.
  3. adjective Including or covering many things or classes: an omnibus trade bill.

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  • And now the omnibus was abandoned by a little roadside inn to the care of a hostler, who took the horses (poor dumb brutes!) —  Nearly Lost but Dearly Won
  • Counting the armed drivers of each omnibus, and the extra man each carried, he had less than thirty men. —  The Boy Scouts on the Trail
  • Outside the omnibus were an officer of the gendarmerie in uniform and two or three sergents-de-ville not in uniform. —  The Insurrection in Paris
  • The people wanted to have him out of the omnibus, and it was with difficulty the cavalry prevented them from dragging him out and inflicting summary execution. —  The Insurrection in Paris
  • "Good night, and thank you He had just time to drop a shilling into his hand before the omnibus was off. —  Cobwebs and Cables
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  1. French, from Latin, for all, dative pl. of omnis, all; see op- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In noun use (def. 1), from French omnibus, a vehicle intended ‘for all’; from Latin omnibus, for all, dative plural of omnis, all, every (later Italian ogni, all).
 

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