bus terminal
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1.8
- noun
- /bʌs ˈtɜːrmɪnəl/
:
terminal de autobuses
- The bus terminal was crowded with passengers waiting for their buses to depart.
She did while the Port Authority bus terminal tweeted kill me.
- She did while the Port Authority bus terminal tweeted kill me.
Examples
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Loudspeakers in the bus terminal blare destinations in New York State: Syracuse, Albany, Schenectady.
Fiction book (1999) -
At one corner of the station was a bus terminal.
Fiction book (1992) -
To be honest, I miss the bus terminal.
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You know the port authority bus terminal?
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Is this the bus terminal?
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Then we walked from the van service to the bus terminal.
Blog text (7) -
I'm at the bus terminal.
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They want us to meet him at the bus terminal.
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The Chicago bus terminal had been unwelcoming, crowded, and busy.
Fiction book (1991) -
The bus terminal at Saltillo was jammed, with a festive mood, nevertheless, because the next day was indeed Christmas.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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3.5
A building where passengers begin or end a journey, for example at an airport
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1.0
A place where buses stop and people wait to get on or off
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6.9
The final station at the end of a bus or train route
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2.5
A place where people keep, fix, and send out buses with a waiting area
A place where long-distance buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bus' (a vehicle) + 'terminal' (a station/ending point) yields a place where buses start, end, or load/unload passengers. This follows a common noun+noun place-formation pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bus terminal comes from the word terminal, which means 'end' or 'last stop', and it creates the image of the place where buses reach the end of their route. So it means a station where buses start or finish and where passengers get on or off.