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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
David Harewood

Meaning of "lorry driver" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LORRY DRIVER

lorry driver  [ˈlɒrɪ ˈdraɪvə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LORRY DRIVER

noun
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verb
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pronoun
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conjunction
determiner
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Lorry driver is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LORRY DRIVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lorry driver in the English dictionary

The definition of lorry driver in the dictionary is a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LORRY DRIVER


arriver
əˈraɪvə
cabdriver
ˈkæbˌdraɪvə
conjunctiva
ˌkɒndʒʌŋkˈtaɪvə
contriver
kənˈtraɪvə
deriver
dɪˈraɪvə
diver
ˈdaɪvə
driver
ˈdraɪvə
fiver
ˈfaɪvə
Godiva
ɡəˈdaɪvə
hiver
ˈhaɪvə
nondriver
ˌnɒnˈdraɪvə
owner-driver
ˈəʊnəˈdraɪvə
reviver
rɪˈvaɪvə
Saiva
ˈsaɪvə
saliva
səˈlaɪvə
screwdriver
ˈskruːˌdraɪvə
shriver
ˈʃraɪvə
striver
ˈstraɪvə
survivor
səˈvaɪvə
thriver
ˈθraɪvə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LORRY DRIVER

loricated
lorication
Lorient
lories
lorikeet
lorimer
loriner
loring
loriot
loris
lorn
lornness
Lorrain
Lorraine
Lorraine cross
lorries
Lorris
lorry
lorry load
lory

WORDS THAT END LIKE LORRY DRIVER

ambulance driver
coach driver
deliver
drunk driver
head of the river
hit-and-run driver
learner driver
pile-driver
race car driver
racing driver
rally driver
reckless driver
river
slave driver
slave-driver
Sunday driver
taxi driver
the river
tractor driver
truck driver
woman driver

Synonyms and antonyms of lorry driver in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lorry driver» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LORRY DRIVER

Find out the translation of lorry driver to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lorry driver from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lorry driver» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

货车司机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

camionero
570 millions of speakers

English

lorry driver
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लॉरी ड्राइवर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

سَائِقُ الْشَاحِنَةِ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

водитель грузовика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

motorista de caminhão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রাকচালক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

camionneur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

pemandu lori
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lkw-Fahrer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トラック運転手
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

트럭 운전사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sopir lorry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tài xế xe tải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சரக்குந்து ஓட்டுனர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मालगाडी चालक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kamyon şoförü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

camionista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kierowca ciężarówki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

водій вантажівки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șofer de camion
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οδηγός φορτηγού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vragmotorbestuurder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lastbilschaufför
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lastebilsjåfør
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lorry driver

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LORRY DRIVER»

The term «lorry driver» is regularly used and occupies the 103.513 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LORRY DRIVER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lorry driver

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3 QUOTES WITH «LORRY DRIVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lorry driver.
1
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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Neal Asher
I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
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David Harewood
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LORRY DRIVER»

Discover the use of lorry driver in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lorry driver and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Lorry Driver
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Peter G. Hollowell, 1968
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Lorry Driver Ils 154
In skill terms the lorry driver's job must be viewed as being at least as skilled as a machine operator's job. The Registrar General's Occupational Classification, 1960, puts the lorry driver in the Social Class III grouping—the skilled worker group.
Peter G Hollowell, 2013
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Milk Lorry Driver
Llyfr stori maint A3 am ddiwrnod yn hanes gyrrwr lorri laeth yn Nyffryn Clwyd yn yr 1960au, yn seiliedig ar gymeriad go iawn.
Sioned V. Hughes, Gwenda Lloyd Wallace, 2008
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Confessions of a Long Distance Lorry Driver: Confessions 12
Get comfy, you’re in for a nice long ride...
Timothy Lea, 2013
5
Here I Am Laowei
Later, when still a young man, he was a forklift driver for many years (for containers, i. e. very large forklifts, matter of fact he was a helmsman of container bridges) and lorry driver. He is still proud of that and tells of his outstanding abilities.
Bernhard Weßling, 2011
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Did Elijah Die?: Chronicle of an Irishman
The rule for the lorry driver was that he not leave the tar-mac road to pick up farmers‟ milk, so the farmers had to bring the milk to the roadside. And besides, the driver could scarcely turn the twenty-four-foot lorry at the Shillington yard with the ...
Valentine George Shillington, 1995
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Out of China
They climbed back into the jeep and drove several miles to the top of the gorge where they found the lorry driver sitting on his damaged tire beside the road. As soon as the Chinese lorry driver saw the jeep, he jumped to his feet and waved his ...
Richard L. Smith, 2005
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On Roads: A Hidden History
The tribe that spends most time on the road is at once the most reviled and romanticised of all: the lorry driver. The reasons, again, are historical. Ever since the birth of long-distance freight in the 1920s, British lorry driving has been dominated ...
Joe Moran, 2010
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Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's ...
(MacEwen 1959: 258), and in the early 19605 sociologists and cultural commentators began to take an increasing interest in the life and work of the long -distance lorry driver (Seymour 1964; Bugler 1966; Hollowell 1968). In a 1966 article in ...
Peter Merriman, 2011
10
The Kaleidoscopic Lover: The Civil War in the Horn of Africa ...
The lorry driver and the palmist lady went to his home a nearby village where he's had a home, and I stayed on the lorry deck to view the people and the city on the top of the lorry. “I saw most beautiful school girls going to the primary school,”  ...
Badal W Kariye, Dr, PhD, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LORRY DRIVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lorry driver is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lorry driver convicted for taking Britain's most dangerous …
This is the moment a lorry driver convicted of dangerous driving went the wrong way around what has been dubbed Britain's most lethal ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
London Lorry Driver Accidentally Runs Over A Ducati Monster - Art …
Talk about a near brush with death earlier today (July 20,2015.) UK Youtuber BigSmokeAndTheMonster was riding his Ducati Monster around ... «The Art of Gears, Jul 15»
3
Wife's tribute to lorry driver who died after falling ill at the wheel …
A lorry driver who died behind the wheel on the A6 Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass has been described as a “lovable grump” by his wife, who has ... «Buxton Advertiser, Jul 15»
4
Lorry driver left with life changing injuries after collision with white van
A lorry driver has been left with life changing injuries following a collision with a white van on Saturday. Police are now appealing for witnesses ... «Milton Keynes Citizen, Jul 15»
5
Polish lorry driver jailed for five years for causing death by …
A POLISH lorry driver, whose attempted u-turn on a busy dual carriageway resulted in the death of a 53-year-old man in January, has been ... «Andover Advertiser, Jul 15»
6
Five held over murder of lorry driver
Police have also not ruled out revenge and secret society-related activities as a possible motive for the shooting of the lorry driver in Skudai on ... «The Rakyat Post, Jul 15»
7
Calais migrant crisis could be solvedwith new invention for lorries …
EXCLUSIVE: New invention could help lorry drivers deal with stowaway migrants. A BRITISH lorry driver's new invention could stop migrants ... «Daily Star, Jul 15»
8
Glen Daly Crete death: Lorry driver's appeal angers family
A lorry driver who killed a British holidaymaker in a crash in Crete has been described as "inhumane" for appealing against his conviction. «BBC News, Jul 15»
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Lorry driver sentenced for tragedy on Cirencester road which …
A tearful lorry-driver responsible for a "tragic accident" in which a 69-year-old motorist was killed turned to the deceased's family in court today ... «Gloucestershire Echo, Jul 15»
10
Lorry driver cut free after M5 crash
A driver has been cut from the cab of a 7.5tonne lorry after a crash with another HGV on the M5 motorway. The incident took place shortly after ... «Bristol Post, Jul 15»

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