Meaning

16 senses
  1. One who drives something.

    someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

  2. One who drives something.

    A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.

    The driver will make an announcement when the trip is nearing its completion.

    Tipping your driver is optional but is much appreciated.

    Fahrer, Fahrerin

    води́тельvodítelʹ, води́тельницаvodítelʹnica, шофёрšofjór

    воді́йvodíj, воді́йкаvodíjka, шофе́рšofér

  3. (slang)A pilot (person who flies aircraft).

  4. A person who drives livestock: a drover.

  5. Something that drives something else.

  6. Something that drives something else.

    A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

    Treiber

    дра́йверdrájver

    дра́йверdrájver

  7. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.

    Driver

    a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

  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.

    The driver engages the follower intermittently, as dictated by the solenoid.

  11. A mallet.

  12. A tamping iron.

Examples

1719 sentences
  1. The driver maintained a high speed.

    Водій підтримував високу швидкість.

    deDer Fahrer behielt eine hohe Geschwindigkeit bei.

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  2. My wife is a poor driver.

    Моя дружина погано водить машину.

    ruМоя жена плохо водит машину.

    deMeine Frau ist eine schlechte Autofahrerin.

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  3. He is a very careful driver.

    Він дуже обережний водій.

    ruОн очень осторожный водитель.

    deEr ist ein sehr vorsichtiger Fahrer.

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  4. She is a very poor driver.

    Вона дуже поганий водій.

    ruОна очень плохой водитель.

    deSie ist eine sehr schlechte Autofahrerin.

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  5. Tom didn't recognize the truck driver.

    Том не впізнав водія вантажівки.

    ruТом не узнал водителя грузовика.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
one who drives something, e.g. cattle:
person who drives some other vehicle:
person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus:
program acting as interface between an application and hardware:
Русский
By meaning 5
one who drives something, e.g. cattle:
something that drives something:
person who drives some other vehicle:
person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus:
program acting as interface between an application and hardware:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
one who drives something, e.g. cattle:
person who drives some other vehicle:
golf club:

Origin

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Sat

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”).

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Forms

plural: drivers
Singulardriver
Pluraldrivers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee:number one wood
  • (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device:device driver

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

68 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • driver's license
  • a driver's license
  • have a driver's
  • a taxi driver
  • taxi driver
  • bus driver
  • his driver's license
  • truck driver
  • my driver's license
  • better better driver
  • a truck driver
  • better driver than

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
driver — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto