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commuter

/kəˈmjuːtɚ/

commuter noun: one who commutes (etymology 1).

Noun

commuter (plural commuters)

  1. One who commutes (etymology 1).
  2. (Canada, UK, US) To and from work and home.
    • How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
      It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not...2024 October 2, Philip Haigh, “Different types of passengers require different types of fare”, in RAIL, number 1019, page 54
  3. (Philippines) Using public transport.
  4. Normally a short form of commuter rail, commuter train or commuter bus; A transport system or a vehicle in such systems used to transport commuters (#2)
    • He takes the commuter to headquarters at least once a week.

commuter meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian

commuter in Tamil

பயணி

commuter in Malayalam

(daily) trveller, traveller, passenger
യാത്രികൻ, യാത്രീകൻ, യാതു, ദിനംപ്രതി യാത്രചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, അതകൻ, അത്യയി

commuter in Kannada

ನಿತ್ಯಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕ, ಸೀಸನ್ ಟಿಕೀಟುದಾರ

commuter in Indonesian

a person who regularly travels to and from work and home
pengelaju, komuter

Examples of commuter in a sentence

  • The train pulled up and disgorged a stream of briefcased commuters.
  • The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.
  • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.

All 40 example sentences with commuter

Forms of commuter

pluralcommuters

Plural of commuter: commuters

Origin of commuter

From commute + -er. The sense of "one who travels to work" derives via commutation ticket, an early form of season ticket.

Words formed from commuter

Phrases with commuter

Words that rhyme with commuter

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about commuter

What does commuter mean?
Commuter means one who commutes (etymology 1).
What is commuter in Tamil?
Commuter in Tamil is பயணி. See Commuter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commuter?
Commuter is a noun.
How do you pronounce commuter?
Commuter is pronounced /kəˈmjuːtɚ/.
What is the plural of commuter?
The plural of commuter is commuters.

Words near commuter in the dictionary

  1. commutator subgroups
  2. commutatorless
  3. commutators
  4. commute
  5. commuted
  6. commuter
  7. commuter belt
  8. commuter belts
  9. commuter bus
  10. commuter buses
  11. commuter busses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commuter (page history and authors); commuter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commuter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); commuter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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