motorman
Americannoun
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a person who operates or drives an electrically operated vehicle, as a streetcar or subway train.
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a person who operates a motor.
noun
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the driver of an electric train
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the operator of a motor
Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of motorman
Example Sentences
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The memoir of a former New York City subway motorman details his hazardous workdays below the streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The conductor and motorman, not yet aboard, ran to catch the car, but its fender knocked Rene down, and she was seriously injured.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Her husband Milton Deoth has been a sailor for over two decades and works as a motorman on MT Heroic Idun.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2022
After displaying an aptitude for complex math, he scaled the ranks from floorhand to motorman to driller to toolpusher.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2020
The streetcar rolled by them slowly so that the conductor and motorman could study Ignatius’ costume more closely.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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