omnibus
/ˈɑmnɪbəs/ noun C1- A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).
- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form. · This work is an omnibus containing all books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week. · The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11:00.
- A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
- an omnibus box.
Plural omnibuses
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Morcerf, like most other young men of rank and fortune, had his orchestra stall, with the certainty of always finding a seat in at least a dozen of the principal boxes occupied by persons of his acquaintance; he had, moreover, his right of entry into the omnibus box.
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