airbus

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airbus¹

  • /ˈeɹ.bʌs/ US

Where it comes from

From air + bus.

noun airbusses · airbuses

  1. A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one. Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.

Airbus²

  • /ˈɛə.bʌs/ UK
  • /ˈɛː.bʌs/ UK
  • /ˈɛəɹ.bʌs/ US
  • /ˈɛɹ.bʌs/ US

Where it comes from

Trade name, from air + bus.

proper noun

  1. A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.

noun Airbuses · Airbusses · Airbii

  1. An aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium. The new plane was the first Airbus in the airline's fleet.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: airliner, bus, air, airyplane, bird, bimotor, aeroplane, habu, warbird, hedgehopper, stealth bomber, broadwing, sky scooter, buzzard, aerophile, beech

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noun a type of airliner

Españolaerobús
Italianoaerobus
Românăaerobuz
Русскийаэро́бус aeróbus

name a European aircraft manufacturer

한국어에어버스 Eeobeoseu
日本語エアバス Eabasu
中文空中客車 /空中客车 Kōngzhōng Kèchē, 空客 Kōngkè
हिन्दीएयरबस eyarbas
РусскийЭ́йрбас Éjrbas, Эйрба́с Ejrbás, Аэро́бус Aeróbus
العربيةإِيرْبَاص ʔīrbāṣ

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@misc{airbus_2026,
  title = {airbus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/airbus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}