bus shelter

English

A bus shelter in Reykjavik, Iceland

Noun

bus shelter (plural bus shelters)

1. A building or other structure constructed at a bus stop, to provide seating and protection from the weather for the convenience of waiting passengers.
   • 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 44:

     I eventually got to a smelly bus shelter and perched cautiously on the bench inside.

   • 2021 June 30, Anthony Lambert, “A railway station fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 934, page 42:

     NR Chairman Sir Peter Hendy had made it clear that he didn't want anything that smacked of the bus shelters seen at many small, usually unstaffed stations.

Synonyms

• (South Asian English) bus que shelter / bus queue shelter / BQS
• bus stop shelter

Related terms

• bus garage
• bus station
• bus stop
• bus terminal
• bus terminus
• waiting shelter

 

Translations

A building or other structure constructed at a bus stop

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 候車亭／候车亭 (hoùchētīng)

• Dutch: bushokje (nl) n, bushok (nl) n
• Faroese: bussskýli n
• Finnish: bussikatos (fi)
• French: abribus (fr) m
• German: Wartehäuschen n, Autobusobdach n
• Greek: στάση (el) f (stási)
• Hungarian: buszváró, buszmegálló-épület/bódé, esőbeálló
• Icelandic: strætisvagnaskýli n
• Norman: abri d'beusse m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: busskur (no) n, buss-skur n

  Nynorsk: busskur n, buss-skur n

• Spanish: marquesina (es) f
• Swedish: busskur (sv) c, väntkur c, hållplatsskydd n, väderskydd n
• Turkish: durak (tr), otobüs durağı

References

• “bus shelter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.