locomotive engineer

1. 1.

   the operator of a railway locomotive

   Synonymsengineerrailroad engineerengine driver

   Broaderoperator

   NarrowerJones

Questions about locomotive engineer

What does locomotive engineer mean?

locomotive engineer means "the operator of a railway locomotive".

What is another word for locomotive engineer?

Close synonyms include engineer, railroad engineer, engine driver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is locomotive engineer a common word?

locomotive engineer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.