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motorist (plural motorists)

1. One who drives a motor vehicle.

   Synonyms: driver; (dated) autoist, automobilist, motorman

   Hypernym: operator

   Hyponyms: chauffeur, Sunday driver, Sunday motorist, truck driver

   Coordinate term: backseat driver

   • 1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13:

     Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.

   • 2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 9 June 2021:

     In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.

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