motorist

English

Etymology

From motor +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• nonmotorist
• Sunday motorist

Translations

one who drives a motor vehicle

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: аўтамабілі́ст m (awtamabilíst), аўтамабілі́стка f (awtamabilístka)
• Bulgarian: автомобилист m (avtomobilist)
• Catalan: motorista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽車駕駛員 / 汽车驾驶员 (qìchē jiàshǐyuán), 司機 / 司机 (zh) (sījī)

• Czech: motorista m
• Danish: bilist (da) c
• Dutch: automobilist (nl) m
• Esperanto: aŭtisto sg
• Finnish: kuljettaja (fi), moottoriajoneuvon kuljettaja, autoilija (fi)
• French: automobiliste (fr) m or f
• Galician: motorista m or f
• German: Autofahrer (de) m, Autofahrerin (de) f
• Hungarian: autós (hu), autóvezető (hu)
• Italian: automobilista (it) m or f
• Japanese: モータリスト (mōtarisuto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bilist m

  Nynorsk: bilist m

• Polish: kierujący m, kierowca (pl) m
• Portuguese: motorista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: automobilist (ro) m, automobilistă (ro) f
• Russian: автомобили́ст (ru) m (avtomobilíst), автомобили́стка (ru) f (avtomobilístka), автолюби́тель (ru) m (avtoljubítelʹ), автолюби́тельница (ru) f (avtoljubítelʹnica)
• Spanish: conductor (es) m or f
• Swedish: bilist (sv) c
• Ukrainian: автомобілі́ст (uk) m (avtomobilíst), автомобілі́стка (uk) f (avtomobilístka)
• Yiddish: אויטאָמאָביליסט m (oytomobilist), אויטאָמאָביליסטקע f (oytomobilistke)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian мотори́ст (motoríst) and French motoriste. Equivalent to motor +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.toˈrist/

Noun

motorist m (plural motoriști, feminine equivalent motoristă)

1. (rare) auto mechanic, motor mechanic

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	motorist	motoristul		motoriști	motoriștii
genitive-dative	motorist	motoristului		motoriști	motoriștilor
vocative	motoristule			motoriștilor

Related terms

• motoriza
• motorizare

References

• “motorist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025