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Yes. The word omnibus is a Scrabble US word. The word omnibus is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is omnibus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word omnibus is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

OMNIBUS,

6-letter words (3 found)

BONISM,NIMBUS,ONIUMS,

5-letter words (14 found)

BISOM,BISON,BONUS,BOSUN,BOUNS,MINOS,MINUS,MUNIS,MUONS,NIMBS,NUMBS,OMBUS,ONIUM,UMBOS,

4-letter words (37 found)

BINS,BIOS,BOIS,BOUN,BUMS,BUNS,IONS,MIBS,MINO,MISO,MOBS,MONS,MOUS,MUNI,MUNS,MUON,MUSO,NIBS,NIMB,NIMS,NOBS,NOMS,NOUS,NUBS,NUMB,OBIS,OMBU,ONUS,SNIB,SNOB,SNUB,SOUM,SUMI,SUMO,SUNI,UMBO,UNIS,

3-letter words (51 found)

BIN,BIO,BIS,BOI,BON,BOS,BUM,BUN,BUS,INS,ION,IOS,ISM,ISO,MIB,MIS,MOB,MOI,MON,MOS,MOU,MUN,MUS,NIB,NIM,NIS,NOB,NOM,NOS,NUB,NUS,OBI,OBS,OIS,OMS,ONS,OUS,SIB,SIM,SIN,SOB,SOM,SON,SOU,SUB,SUI,SUM,SUN,UMS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (21 found)

BI,BO,IN,IO,IS,MI,MO,MU,NO,NU,OB,OI,OM,ON,OS,OU,SI,SO,UM,UN,US,

You can make 127 words from omnibus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of omnibus

omnibus

Etymology

From French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“to/for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-ni- (“working”), from *h₃ep- (“to work; to possess”) or *h₁op- (“to work; to take”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɒmnɪbəs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑmnɪbəs/
  • Hyphenation: om‧ni‧bus
  • Rhymes: -ɪbəs

Noun

omnibus (plural omnibuses or omnibusses or (nonstandard) omnibi)

  1. (dated) A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).
  2. An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
  3. A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
  4. (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

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Adjective

omnibus (not comparable)

  1. Containing multiple items.
  2. Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.

Translations

Verb

omnibus (third-person singular simple present omnibuses or omnibusses, present participle omnibusing or omnibussing, simple past and past participle omnibused or omnibussed)

  1. (transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
  2. (intransitive, dated) To drive an omnibus.
  3. (intransitive, dated) To travel or be transported by omnibus.
    • 2005, Simon Schama, in Simon Schama; Paul Moorhouse; Colin Wiggins, John Virtue: London Paintings, London: National Gallery Company, →ISBN, page 23:
      [John] Virtue has often sung his ode to pollution; the artist's friend. Whether to embrace or reject the begrimed air, the half-choked light has historically sorted out the men from the boys in London painters. […] Claude Monet was in two minds about it, cursing it from his room in the Savoy in 1899 for blotting out the fugitive sun. Yet by far the strongest of his paintings – completed in a studio a long, long way from the Thames – were the greeny-grey early-morning images of crowds tramping and omnibussing their way to work over hostile bridges, unblessed by even a hint of watery sunshine.

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “omnibus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔm.ni.bys/

Adjective

omnibus (invariable)

  1. (rail transport) local (of a train; making stops at all stations)
    un train omnibus ― a local train

Noun

omnibus m (plural omnibus)

  1. (dated) omnibus, bus (especially, a 19th-century horse-drawn omnibus)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “omnibus” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
  • “omnibus” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
  • “omnibus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈom.ni.bus/, [ˈɔmnɪbʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈom.ni.bus/, [ˈɔmnibus]

Adjective

omnibus

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of omnis
    • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
      amor omnibvs idem
      Sex is the same for all of them [viz., every form of man, beast, aquatic or winged life, and livestock]

Noun

omnibus n pl

  1. dative/ablative of omnia

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin omnibus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔmˈɲi.bus/
  • Rhymes: -ibus
  • Syllabification: om‧ni‧bus

Noun

omnibus m inan

  1. (dated) omnibus

Declension

Noun

omnibus m pers

  1. (humorous, literary) jack of all trades (a person with knowledge in multiple fields)

Declension

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Further reading

  • omnibus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • omnibus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org