driver

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: driv=er
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

driver, n.
1 (often in comb.) a person who drives a vehicle (bus-driver; engine-driver).
2 Golf a club with a flat face and wooden head, used for driving from the tee.
3 Electr. a device or part of a circuit providing power for output.
4 Mech. a wheel etc. receiving power directly and transmitting motion to other parts.

Idiom

in the driver's seat in charge.

Derivative

driverless adj.

THESAURUS

driver

Jehu, Simon Legree, Sunday driver, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, agent, airscrew, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, backseat driver, boy, bullwhacker, bus driver, busman, butler, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, caesar, cameleer, carter, cartman, charioteer, chauffeur, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, commissar, conductor, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, drayman, duce, elephant driver, engineer, equerry, fan, functionary, gardener, gentleman, gharry-wallah, gillie, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, handler, hard master, harness racer, hit-and-run driver, houseboy, houseman, impeller, jitney driver, joyrider, lord-in-waiting, mahout, man, manipulator, manservant, martinet, motorist, mule skinner, muleteer, oligarch, operant, operative, operator, oppressor, paddle wheel, pharaoh, pilot, piston, prop, propellant, propeller, propulsor, reinsman, road hog, rotor, runner, screw, screw propeller, skinner, slave driver, speeder, stage coachman, steersman, stickler, taxidriver, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman, turbine, twin screws, tyrant, usurper, valet, valet de chambre, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, warlord, wheel, whip

ROGET THESAURUS

driver

Director

N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.