Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses an automobile vehicle.
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- noun
Driver ; person who uses a motor vehicle such as car, van or truck.
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- noun someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile
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Examples
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The automobilist is a good advertiser of what he finds _en route_ that pleases him, and scores pitilessly -- to other automobilists -- everything in the nature of a swindle that he meets with, and they are not few, for in many places the automobilist is still considered fair game for robbery.
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Lord Montagu was a noted "automobilist" of the day, who published an illustrated magazine called "The Car."
Alanat News 2009
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Witnesses all hand details to the dazed biker and give only old fashioned looks to the lunatic automobilist.
Archive 2007-01-21 2007
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And after the New World, would not the Old in its turn, be desecrated by the mad career of this remarkable automobilist?
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To capture the Master of the Horse as an automobilist was a great achievement for enthusiasts in the advocacy of the new mode of travelling.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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It has a grand establishment known as the Société d'Automobiles Bauchet, which will cater for any and every want of the automobilist, and has a half-dozen sights of first rank, from the old Hôtel Dieu to the bizarre doubled-up Eglise St. Nicolas and the seventeenth-century, wood-roofed market-house.
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No one is better equipped to furnish these tales than Mrs. Penrose, who, besides being an able writer, is an expert automobilist.
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Alice B. Emerson
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Strategically it was important then as it is important now, and Roman soldiery of the past, as the automobilist of to-day, had here four great thoroughfares leading from the city.
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"Slow it is," the watchful, excited Hiram heard him say, working the wheel as cautiously as an automobilist rounding a sharp curve.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane Roy Rockwood
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"Here, give him a sip of this -- it's brandy!" and an automobilist, who had come across the links from the nearest point to the highway, offered his flask.
The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele
john commented on the word automobilist
“Paul Daniel Marriott, a highway historian and consultant in Washington, said road designers began to take the car into account around 1900. Like Vanderbilt, these early car owners were mostly wealthy men; they were called ‘automobilists’ on the model of ‘bicyclists.’�?
The New York Times, A 100-Year-Old Dream: A Road Just for Cars, by Phil Patton, October 9, 2008
October 12, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word automobilist
(noun) - One who uses or drives an automobile; from 1897. Automobilize, to habituate to the use of an automobile. --William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
April 23, 2018