noun
Meaning 1
One who drives a taxi for a living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cabbie, taxi driver
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cabdriver
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noun
Meaning 2
One who drives a carriage for a living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who drives a taxi for a living
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: taxidriver, taximan, cabman, cabby, hack driver, hack-driver, livery driver
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: driver
History
Etymology
From cab + driver.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шофьо́р на та́кси (šofjór na táksi) — one who drives a taxi
- Dutch: taxichauffeur — one who drives a taxi
- Faroese: hýruvognsførari — one who drives a taxi
- Finnish: taksinkuljettaja — one who drives a taxi
- German: Taxifahrer — one who drives a taxi
- German: Droschkenfahrer — one who drives a taxi
- Greek: ταξιτζής (taxitzís) — one who drives a taxi
- Hungarian: taxisofőr — one who drives a taxi
- Hungarian: taxis — one who drives a taxi
- Macedonian: такси́ст (taksíst) — one who drives a taxi
- Russian: такси́ст (taksíst) — one who drives a taxi
- Swedish: taxichaufför — one who drives a taxi
- Bulgarian: кочияш (kočijaš) — one who drives a carriage
- Finnish: vuokra-ajuri — one who drives a carriage
- Finnish: vossikka — one who drives a carriage
- Finnish: hevoskuski — one who drives a carriage
- German: Droschkenkutscher — one who drives a carriage
- Macedonian: кочија́ш (kočijáš) — one who drives a carriage
- Swedish: kusk — one who drives a carriage