Other forms: double-deckers
A double-decker is a bus with a whole second floor of seats. Ride a double-decker, the top of the double-decker, a red double-decker.
It carries about twice as many people for the same length of road, which is why British cities never gave it up. The word is used of anything built in two layers, including a sandwich.
1noundouble-deckerA bus with a whole second floor of seats.
“They sat at the front of the double-decker for the view.”
double-decker is a bus.
Proto-Indo-European
*pel- (fold)
Old French
doble
Middle English
double
English
double
English, today
double-decker
From double + deck + -er. double comes from Middle English double, from Old French doble. From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). a doublet of doppio and duple.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA