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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈtim.stɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-teamster.wav [US] Forms: teamsters [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree English team Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English teamster From team + -ster. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|team|-ster|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English team Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English teamster [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "-estre", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-estere", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ster", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "teamster", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="teamster"> From team + -ster. Head templates: {{en-noun}} teamster (plural teamsters)
  1. (chiefly historical) A person who drives a team of animals (such as horses or oxen). Tags: historical Translations (driver of oxen): ajaja (Finnish), ajuri (Finnish), ajomies (Finnish), tropeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), volar [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), volarica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tayacán (Hond.) [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-teamster-en-noun-EHH1i7dU Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'driver of oxen': 76 24
  2. (US) A person who drives a cargo truck (see Teamster). Tags: US Translations (person who drives a cargo truck): trucker [masculine] (Dutch), rekkakuski [colloquial] (Finnish), kuorma-autonkuljettaja (Finnish), caminhoneiro [masculine] (Portuguese), tronquista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-teamster-en-noun-TrnPmQJM Categories (other): American English, English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ster, Entries with translation boxes, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Occupations, People Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 27 73 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ster: 23 77 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 26 74 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Occupations: 31 69 Disambiguation of People: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'person who drives a cargo truck': 41 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: teamster tea Related terms: coach driver, coachman, stagecoachman

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.