motorist

Noun

motorist (plural motorists)

1. One who drives a motor vehicle.
   • 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.1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13
   • 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.2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021

   Synonyms:

   driver, autoist, automobilist, motorman