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motormen

motormen is the plural of motorman.

Meaning of motorman

Noun

motorman (plural motormen)

  1. (dated) A man who controls a motor.
  2. (dated) A person who operates a motor vehicle.
    • I woke up with a motorman's glove in my mouth, drank two cups of coffie and went through the morning papers.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 43
  3. (India) A train driver.
    • Near-synonym: engineer
    Synonyms:
    engineer
  4. (UK) An electric train or tram driver.
    • Near-synonym: engineer
    Synonyms:
    motorneer, engineer

Questions about motormen

What is motormen the plural of?
Motormen is the plural of motorman.

Words near motormen in the dictionary

  1. motorlike
  2. motorman
  3. motorman's friend
  4. motorman's friends
  5. motormania
  6. motormen
  7. motormouth
  8. motormouthed
  9. motormouthing
  10. motormouths
  11. motorneer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: motormen (page history and authors); motorman (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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