In Britain, a comfortable bus that carries passengers on long journeys is called a coach. The coach leaves Cardiff at twenty to eight. In America, a vehicle designed for long journeys is usually called a bus.
Note that in British English, and therefore in much of Europe's English-language signage and websites, a long-distance bus is called a "coach," while a "bus" provides only in-city transit. I use buses mainly to pick up where Europe's great train system leaves off.
The word bus is short for omnibus, which means “for everyone.” Bus was first used in this sense in the 1830s, its "everyone" meaning referencing the fact that anyone could join the coach along its route, unlike with stagecoaches, which had to be pre-booked.
a large vehicle in which people are driven from one place to another: You should take the bus/go by bus (= travel by bus) if you want to see the sights.
Why don't people in the UK say 'bus' but say coach, single deck, and double deck instead? But we do say “bus”. We use those other terms only when we want to be specific. I take the bus to town a couple of times a month.
The famous London taxis are actually called 'hackney carriages' but in London we just call them 'black cabs/taxis'. London taxi drivers have to pass a special exam called the Knowledge to get their license so if you take a black cab, you can be sure the driver will know the way.
Because the old horse drawn long distance carriages were called coaches, the name just got carried over. Because we have always used the word ” Horse and Coach" and they are probably pre paid fares on it as to ordinary buses that pick passengers up at bus stops who pay when they board the bus..
The plural form of bus is buses. To be fair, a few dictionaries do list busses as an alternative plural form of bus. But it appears so rarely that most people would view it as a spelling error.
An omnibus is another word for a bus, as in a large vehicle carrying lots of passengers. Other names are autobus and coach. This word has bus in it, and that's the main meaning of omnibus.
synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle. types: minibus. a light bus (4 to 10 passengers) school bus. a bus used to transport children to or from school.
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van.
Buses are the most widespread and most commonly used form of public transport in the United Kingdom. In Great Britain, bus transportation is owned and governed by private sector companies (subject to government regulation), except in Greater London.
Strictly speaking, a coach is a specific type of bus. Both are sizeable motor vehicles that transport a large number of people to their destination via the road. However, coaches have diverged from the traditional transit bus and are now categorised as a separate form of transport.
Coach services generally travel further than, and do not stop as frequently as, and cost more than, bus services. It is common, but not universal, for coach travel to require advance purchase of tickets, whereas on buses tickets are mostly bought (or, increasingly, electronic payment is made) on board.
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