busload
23
2.3
- noun
- /ˈbʌsloʊd/
- We had a busload of old folks on a wine tour.
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Examples
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Here comes another busload of tourists!
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Young people, by busloads, will go to Chicago to show our solidarity and our disgust.
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Just me and a busload of kids.
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There's a busload of people coming.
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She's bringing them in by the busload.
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Then he watches another busload of tourists drive through the gate at 56 Hope Road.
Academic text (1995) -
But everyone loves the movies, so Hollywood is everyone's town, and they come here by the busload.
Fiction book (2001) -
The fiancée was her friend, too, poor thing, off in Vienna with a busload of Newcomb girls.
Fiction book (1992) -
Shakespearean productions have not been slighted, with a busload of thirty-five girls attending a performance of Twelfth Night at Princeton University.
Academic text (1995) -
We had a busload of tourists visiting the museum today.
Synonyms
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1.1
An amount of things carried at one time, like cargo on a vehicle
45
2.9
A very large amount about as much as fills a truck
4
3.8
The number of people or things on one plane trip
4
3.6
The amount of people or goods a ship can carry
3
2.5
A large amount of goods carried by a ship
2
3.2
A large amount of goods that one train can carry
2
3.5
An amount that fills a cart, often meaning a very large quantity
1
3.4
An amount of goods that fills a van
1
3.0
An amount that fills a wagon
How Many
23
2.3
975
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word busload is made of bus and load: bus comes from the old word omnibus meaning 'for all', and load means the 'amount' or 'things' carried. So a busload is the number of people or the amount of cargo a bus can carry at one time.