automobile
noun
a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.
automobilist
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a word derived from
automobile.
Example Sentences
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They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained in languages, music, painting, sculpture, cooking, sewing and domestic science.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tow In Ventura, Calif, arrived an automobilist & family, asked H. A. Johnson, local Red Cross official, for gasoline money.
From Time Magazine Archive
He became a volunteer "automobilist" with the British Army, chauffeured Albert, King of the Belgians.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be worth the few additional kilometres to the automobilist, although hardly demanding the breaking of a railway journey.
From Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
