terminus
noun /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/
/ˈtɜːrmɪnəs/
(plural termini
/ˈtɜːmɪnaɪ/
/ˈtɜːrmɪnaɪ/
)- the last station at the end of a railway line or the last stop on a bus routeExtra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and trainc2
- It's the terminus for trains from the north.
- When the bus reached the terminus they were waiting to meet us.
- Waterloo is the UK's first international train terminus.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTerminus is used after these nouns:- railway
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘final point in space or time’): from Latin, ‘end, limit, boundary’.