airbus

noun

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.”

2. An aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium.

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

name

1. A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.