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Omnibus vs Omen - What's the difference?

omnibus | omen |

As nouns the difference between omnibus and omen

is that omnibus is public bus while omen is (adult male human).

omnibus

English

Noun

(wikipedia omnibus)
  • (lb) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
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  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus , cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  • *1911',
  • *:"Please, is that an omnibus ?" / "Omnibus est," said the driver, without turning round.
  • *1959 , (Michael Flanders), (At the Drop of a Hat)
  • *:Omnibus , my friend Mr. Swann informs me, comes from the Latin omnibus , meaning to or for by with or from everybody, which is a very good description. Well, this song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled—I thought of this—'A Transport of Delight'.
  • *1988 , (Rowan Atkinson) as Ebenezer Blackadder in "(w, Blackadder's Christmas Carol) ", written by (Richard Curtis) and (Ben Elton):
  • *:Baldrick, I want you to take this [money] and go out, and buy a turkey so large you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus .
  • An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
  • A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
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  • (lb) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

    • Derived terms

    * bus

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Containing multiple items.
    • The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.

    Verb

  • To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
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    omen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia omen)
  • Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
    • the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
    a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
    the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
  • prophetic significance
    • a sign of ill omen

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky.

    Synonyms

    * portent, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken; see also

    Related terms

    * ominous

    Verb

  • To be an omen of.
  • To divine or predict from omens.

    • Synonyms

    * prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

    See also

    * augury * foreboding * portend * portent

    External links

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    Anagrams

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