English Explanatory Dictionary

driver

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who drives something.
  2. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
  3. A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
  4. A person who drives livestock: a drover.
  5. Something that drives something else.
  6. A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  7. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  8. A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  9. A factor contributing to something; a cause.
  10. Any driving element in any mechanism, which drives the driven element.
  11. A mallet.
  12. A tamping iron.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. A neighbourhood in the city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States.
  4. An inner suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɹaɪ.və/ drīʹvər /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/ en-us-driver.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-driver.wav

Word forms

driver drivers

Etymology

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”), Swedish drivare (“driver”).

Antonyms

follower

Related words

chauffeur conductor pilot rider

Derived words

back-seat driver blip driver bus driver cab driver cabdriver camel driver cattle driver chauffeur driver coach driver codriver combine driver crane driver daily driver Death Valley driver designated driver device driver drabi drink-driver drink driver driver ant driver-ant driver-boom driveress driver fatigue driverless driver licence driverly driver-only operation driver reviver driver's education driverside driver's license driver transistor driver tube driver valve driver-yard drug driver drunk driver engine driver getaway driver ghost driver impact driver in the driver's seat L-driver lorry driver mass driver minidriver multidriver Negro-driver non-driver nondriver nutdriver nut driver oncodriver owner-driver paper driver pen-driver pile driver piledriver pill driver

Translations

Arabic: سَائِق Arabic: سَوَّاق Catalan: conductor Chinese Mandarin: 驅趕動物者 /驱赶动物者 Chinese Mandarin: 司機 /司机 Chinese Mandarin: 駕駛員 /驾驶员 Chinese Mandarin: 駕駛者 /驾驶者 Danish: chauffør Finnish: ajaja Finnish: ajuri Finnish: ajojuhta Finnish: kuski French: conducteur French: conductrice French: traqueur French: traqueuse German: Treiber German: Treiberin German: Fahrer German: Fahrerin Greek: οδηγός Greek: μηχανοδηγός Ancient Greek: ἐλατήρ Hindi: चालक Hindi: ड्राइवर Hungarian: hajtó Hungarian: fogathajtó Hungarian: ösztönző Hungarian: hajtóerő Hungarian: mozgatórugó Hungarian: ösztönzőerő Hungarian: motor Hungarian: vezető Hungarian: (coachman, carter, wagoner) kocsis Ingrian: ajaja Irish: tiománaí Italian: conducente Italian: aspirazione Italian: desiderio Kamba: ndeleba Kikuyu: derefa Northern Kurdish: ajovan Northern Kurdish: ajokar Northern Kurdish: şofêr Northern Kurdish: sayêq Luhya: omudereva Luo: dreva Manx: immanagh Māori: kaitaraiwa Māori: kaiwhiu Māori: taraiwa Meru: ndereva Navajo: naʼałbąąsii Portuguese: condutor Portuguese: condutora Portuguese: piloto Portuguese: pilota Punjabi: ډرېور Romanian: conducător Romanian: pilot Russian: пого́нщик Russian: пого́нщица Russian: дви́житель Russian: води́тель Russian: води́тельница Serbo-Croatian: го̀нӣч Serbo-Croatian: gònīč Serbo-Croatian: pokretač Serbo-Croatian: šofer Serbo-Croatian: šoferka Serbo-Croatian: во̀за̄ч Serbo-Croatian: воза̀чица Serbo-Croatian: vòzāč Serbo-Croatian: vozàčica Spanish: conductor Spanish: conductora Spanish: manejador Swahili: dereva Swahili: mwendeshaji Swedish: förare Telugu: సారథి Telugu: డ్రైవర్ Thai: คนขับ Thai: ผู้ขับ Ukrainian: пого́нич Ukrainian: пого́нець Ukrainian: водій Welsh: gyrrwr Armenian: վարորդ Azerbaijani: sürücü Bulgarian: водач Bulgarian: водачка Chinese Cantonese: 司機 /司机 Chinese Cantonese: 駕駛員 /驾驶员 Chinese Cantonese: 駕駛者 /驾驶者 Chinese Cantonese: 柴可夫 Czech: řidič
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