school bus

noun

: a vehicle used for transporting children to or from school or on activities connected with school

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Several students were injured Monday afternoon after a school bus crashed in central Minnesota. Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 May 2026 Other award-winning sites include a place with a drive-in movie theater near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, geodesic domes in Texas, safari tents in Kentucky, a secluded tent getaway in the Catskills of New York and a converted school bus outside Lake Huron in Michigan. Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 18 May 2026 At the size of a school bus, these pass through our neighborhood several times per year. Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 18 May 2026 Buck and Gustafson mailed LPs to every other college radio station in America, and by 1984, the Maniacs were touring up and down the East Coast in a converted school bus. Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for school bus

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of school bus was in 1908

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“School bus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school%20bus. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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school bus

noun
: a vehicle for transporting children to and from school

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