airbus

plural airbusses · plural airbuses

1. A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.

   Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954

1. aeronauticsA European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.

plural Airbuses · plural Airbusses · humorous plural Airbii

1. aeronauticsAn aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium.

   The new plane was the first Airbus in the airline's fleet.