BUSED
What does "BUSED" mean?
Transported by bus, especially as part of organized group travel.
Meanings
- Past tense of 'bus': to carry people somewhere by bus. The students were bused to the stadium for the championship.
- Transported by bus specifically to achieve racial integration of schools. Children were bused across the city to balance the school districts. technical
- Cleared dishes from tables in a restaurant. He bused the corner table while the cooks plated the next order. informal
Did you know?
- In 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg that students could be bused across districts to desegregate schools, making a verb the center of a national fight.
Word origin
Past tense of the verb 'bus', a back-formation from the noun 'bus', itself shortened from 'omnibus' (Latin for 'for all'). The single-S spelling 'bused' competes with 'bussed'.
Remember it
BUSED is BUS plus one passenger (E) and a destination (D), spelled with a single S because it already left.
A little poem
Dawn, a cold seat, a window fogged-
across town to a school not theirs,
a whole childhood spent in transit.
tercet
What it teaches
Where you are carried can decide as much as where you choose to go.
Quick facts
What does BUSED mean?
Transported by bus, especially as part of organized group travel.
Is BUSED a valid word?
Yes — BUSED is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BUSED?
BUSED has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BUSED come from?
Past tense of the verb 'bus', a back-formation from the noun 'bus', itself shortened from 'omnibus' (Latin for 'for all'). The single-S spelling 'bused' competes with 'bussed'.
What can BUSED teach us?
Where you are carried can decide as much as where you choose to go.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.