The load was too heavy for a driver to carry alone.
Source: tatoeba (23682)
Driver
//ˈdɹaɪ.və//
Synonyms for "driver" (124 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (62)
houseboyhousemanimpellerjehujitney driverjoyriderlord-in-waitingmahoutmanmanipulatormanservantmartinetmule skinnermuleteeroligarchoperantoperativeoperatoroppressorpaddle wheel
Show 40 more words
pharaohpilotpistonproppropellantpropellerpropulsorreinsmanroad hogrotorrunnerscrewscrew propellerservantsimon legreeskinnerslave driverspeederstage coachmansteersmansticklersunday drivertaxidriverteamstertruck drivertruckertruckmanturbinetwin screwstyrantusurpervaletvalet de chambrevetturinovoiturierwagonerwagonmanwarlordwheelwhip
Noun(2 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescapable of
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
derived
82 entriesShowing 16 of 82 words.
has context
4 entriesis a
6 entriesnot desires
4 entriesrelated to
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
Translations
409 translations across 91 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- makinist noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- shofer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- shofere noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλατήρ noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Arabic
4 entries- سواق noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- سَائِق noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- سَائِق noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- سَائِق noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Armenian
3 entries- դրայվեր noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- վարորդ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- վարորդ noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- ranəndə noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sürücü noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sürücü noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- sürücü noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Belarusian
4 entries- вадзі́цель noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- вадзі́целька noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- дра́йвер noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- дра́йвэр noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Bengali
2 entries- চালক noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ড্রাইভার noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Bikol Central
1 entries- drayber noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Bulgarian
4 entries- водач noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- водачка noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- двигател noun (a factor contributing to something)
- дра́йвер noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Burmese
1 entries- ယာဉ်မောင်း noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Catalan
4 entries- conductor noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- conductor noun (something that drives something)
- conductor noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- conductor noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Cebuano
1 entries- drayber noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- شۆفێر noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- لێخوڕ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 司機 /司机 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 司機 /司机 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- 柴可夫 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 柴可夫 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 司機 /司机 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 司機 /司机 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- 駕駛員 /驾驶员 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 駕駛員 /驾驶员 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Czech
4 entries- ovladač noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- řidič noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- řidič noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- řidička noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Danish
2 entries- chauffør noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- chauffør noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Dari
1 entries- موتَرْران noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Dutch
4 entries- bestuurder noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- bestuurder noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- chauffeur noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- stuurprogramma noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Esperanto
3 entries- aŭtisto noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- aŭtomobilisto noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- pelilo noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Estonian
4 entries- autojuht noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- draiver noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- juht noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- juht noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Faroese
4 entries- bilførari noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- bussførari noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- lastbilførari noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- motorsúkklistur noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Finnish
4 entries- ajaja noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- ajaja noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ajojuhta noun (something that drives something)
- ajuri noun (something that drives something)
French
4 entries- chauffeur noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- chauffeuse noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- conducteur noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- conducteur noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Georgian
2 entries- დრაივერი noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- მძღოლი noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
German
4 entries- Driver noun (golf club)
- Fahrer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- Fahrer noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- Fahrerin noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Greek
4 entries- μηχανοδηγός noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- οδηγός noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- οδηγός noun (something that drives something)
- οδηγός noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Greenlandic
1 entries- biilertoq noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Hebrew
4 entries- נֶהָג noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- נֶהָג noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- נַהָג noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- נַהָג noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Hindi
4 entries- चालक noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- चालक noun (something that drives something)
- चालक noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- चालक noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Hungarian
4 entries- (coachman, carter, wagoner) kocsis noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- fogathajtó noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- golfütő noun (golf club)
- gépjárművezető noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Icelandic
3 entries- bílstjóri noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- rekill noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- ökumaður noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Indonesian
1 entries- sopir noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Ingrian
3 entries- ajaja noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- ajaja noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ajaja noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- رانَنْدِه noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- شوفِر noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Irish
4 entries- maide mór noun (golf club)
- tiománaí noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- tiománaí noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- tiománaí noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Italian
4 entries- aspirazione noun (something that drives something)
- autista noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- conducente noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- desiderio noun (something that drives something)
Japanese
4 entries- ドライバ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ドライバ noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- ドライバー noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ドライバー noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Kamba
1 entries- ndeleba noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Kazakh
3 entries- драйвер noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- жүргізуші noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- шопыр noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Khmer
2 entries- តៃកុង noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- អ្នកបើកឡាន noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Kikuyu
1 entries- derefa noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Korean
4 entries- 기사 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 기사 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- 드라이버 noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- 드라이버 noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Kyrgyz
4 entries- айдоочу noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- драйвер noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- жүргүзүүчү noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- шофёр noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Lao
1 entries- ຄົນຂັບລົດ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Latin
1 entries- auriga noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Latvian
4 entries- draiveris noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- dzinis noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- vadītāja noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- vadītājs noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Lithuanian
4 entries- draiveris noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- tvarkyklė noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- vairuotoja noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- vairuotojas noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Luhya
1 entries- omudereva noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Luo
1 entries- dreva noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Macedonian
4 entries- возач noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- возачка noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- двигател noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- шофер noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Malay
3 entries- drebar noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- pemacu noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- pemandu noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Maltese
4 entries- drajver noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- sewwieq noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sewwieqa noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- xufier noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Manx
1 entries- immanagh noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- shofera noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Marathi
4 entries- चालक noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- चालक noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- चालिका noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- चालिका noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Meru
1 entries- ndereva noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Mongolian
2 entries- драйвэр noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- жолооч noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Māori
4 entries- atekōkiri noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- haupōro haukuru noun (golf club)
- haurākau kōkiri noun (golf club)
- kaitaraiwa noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Navajo
1 entries- naʼałbąąsii noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Norman
1 entries- cacheux noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- ajok noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- ajokar noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ajokar noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- ajovan noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- driver noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- driverfil noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- fører noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sjåfør noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- førar noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sjåfør noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- вожач noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Pashto
3 entries- موټروان noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ډرايور noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ډرېور noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Polish
4 entries- automobilista noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- automobilistka noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- drajwer noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- driver noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Portuguese
4 entries- condutor noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- condutor noun (something that drives something)
- condutor noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- condutora noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Punjabi
1 entries- ډرېور noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Romanian
4 entries- conducător noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- conducător auto noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- pilot noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- șofer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Russian
4 entries- води́тель noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- води́тель noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- води́тельница noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- води́тельница noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dràjver noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- golf palica za duge udarce noun (golf club)
- gònīč noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- pokretač noun (something that drives something)
Slovak
4 entries- ovládač noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- vodič noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- vodička noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- šofér noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Slovene
4 entries- voznica noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- voznik noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- šofer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- šoferka noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Spanish
4 entries- chafirete noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- chofer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- chófer noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- conductor noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Swahili
4 entries- dereva noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- dereva noun (something that drives something)
- dereva noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- dereva noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Swedish
4 entries- chaufför noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- driver noun (golf club)
- drivrutin noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- förare noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Tagalog
1 entries- drayber noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Tajik
2 entries- ронанда noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- шофёр noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Telugu
3 entries- చోదకుడు noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- డ్రైవర్ noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- సారథి noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Thai
4 entries- คนขับ noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- คนขับ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- คนขับรถ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ผู้ขับ noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཁ་ལོ་བ noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Turkish
4 entries- haydavcı noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- kıvcı noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sürücü noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- sürücü noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
Turkmen
2 entries- sürügi noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- şofýor noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Ukrainian
4 entries- воді́й noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- воді́йка noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- водій noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- дра́йвер noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Urdu
4 entries- ڈْرائِوَر noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- ڈْرائِوَر noun (person who drives some other vehicle)
- ڈْرائِوَر noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
- ڈْرائِیوَر noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Uyghur
1 entries- شوپۇر noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Uzbek
2 entries- haydovchi noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- shofyor noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Vietnamese
2 entries- người lái noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- tài xế noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Welsh
3 entries- gyrrwr noun (one who drives something, e.g. cattle)
- gyrrwr noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- gyrrwr noun (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
Yiddish
1 entries- שאָפֿער noun (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Passengers shall not converse with the driver while the bus is in motion.
Source: tatoeba (26577)
Don't speak to the driver while he is driving.
Source: tatoeba (26579)
The driver was inattentive and could not stop in time.
Source: tatoeba (26580)
Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.