MOTORIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motorist mean? 

• MOTORIST (noun)
  The noun MOTORIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile

  Familiarity information: MOTORIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTORIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

automobilist; motorist

Hypernyms ("motorist" is a kind of...):

driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)

Derivation:

motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle)

 Context examples 

Some, such as the Norwegian Local Radio Association, are concerned about the impact on motorists and the elderly.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

Thus far there was no difficulty in accounting for his time—there were boys who had seen a man "acting sort of crazy" and motorists at whom he stared oddly from the side of the road.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)