1. The operator of a motor vehicle
   "The driver carefully navigated the icy roads"
    
2. Someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
   "The stagecoach driver urged the horses to go faster"
    
3. A golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
   "The long-hitting driver consistently outdrove his opponents"
    
4. A golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
   "He reached for his driver to drive the ball off the first tee";
   - number one wood
    
5. (computing) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
   "He needed to update the device driver for his new printer to work properly";
   - device driver
    
6. A factor that causes or influences change
   "Cost was the main driver of the decision"

Derived forms: drivers

Type of: golf player, golfer, manipulator, operator, service program, utility, utility program, wood, worker

Antonym: nondriver

Encyclopedia: Driver, Peter