school bus
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- noun
- /skuːl bʌs/
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autobús escolar
- Every morning, the yellow school bus stops in front of my house.
- ride the school bus
- a school bus driver
- a yellow school bus
There was that school bus full of children in California.
- There was that school bus full of children in California.
- And the moment that he climbs onto the school bus and meets Jenny defines his life.
- We are also announcing funding or yes, one of my favorite topics, electric school buses.
- You know, if you see me getting onto a short school bus from the rear, you wouldn't think anything of it.
- We'll need companies that can fill thousands of orders for solar panels, EV charging stations and electric school buses.
- But but the Pentagon's like, no, no, you can't shoot it down because the damn balloon is like, they're the size of three school buses wide.
- getting on a bus, school bus and saying to the driver,
- I didn't mean to steal the school bus and run over all those people.
- And to think that we're we're pushing these electric school buses on kids, these things go up quick.
- So murder mystery kids that were on a trip with school bus.
- And most of the school buses don't have a great firewall when it comes to heat.
Examples
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Arrangements for the excursion using the school bus were made through the principal's office.
Academic text (1997) -
Elspeth begged to be allowed to take the school bus again, and eventually her parents gave in.
Fiction book (1996) -
There was that school bus full of children in California.
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I already fixed his lunch and the school bus picked him up.
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The school bus is outside.
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Moments like this are the reason I became a school bus driver.
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A school bus just drove by!
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She's a school bus driver for special needs kids.
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While some public transportation in rural communities is wired, school buses generally are not.
Academic text (2014) -
It's where the school bus drops off students when the town's dirt roads are impassable.
Academic text (2018)
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Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'school' (education institution) + 'bus' (large vehicle), so a learner who knows both words can directly infer it denotes a bus used for school transport. This noun–noun composition is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'autobús escolar', French 'bus scolaire'), making the meaning immediately accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
School bus is a literal name: it joins school and bus, meaning a bus used to take children to and from school. So, because these buses pick up and drop off students and are often bright yellow, the name means 'a vehicle for taking children to and from school'.