Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A publicly or privately owned vehicle that is used for taking schoolchildren to and from school or school-related activities.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bus used to transport children to or from school
Examples
“Arrive at Moose County airport and proceed in the comfort of a converted school bus to an all-night restaurant famous for pirogi and boiled cabbage.”
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast
“I didn't have a way into the city, so I rode the school bus to Oxford High School, sneaked down to the mall a block away from school and caught a city bus into Anniston.”
“But Spencer Longtree rode the school bus with his gang of roughneck buddies.”
“Elizabeth was walking Sam to the school bus stop when she noticed a middle-aged fatbody in a silver-gray sedan with Maryland plates watching the house and taking notes.”
“Ferried by school bus or by accommodating parents, children were taught from infancy to look away from their communities for their activities, hobbies and satisfactions.”
No Laughing Matter
“With the excitement of kids off to summer camp, my sister and I jumped on the yellow school bus that picked us up near our board-inghouse, the Hotel Atlanta, each morning.”
“The names, Sarah, Bruce, Rube, were familiar … Ages ago, in time well outside the mastaba, they had heard these names—in a classroom, on a school bus …”
Simon & Schuster: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
bilby Indian-style. Sep 23, 2009