chauffeur
See also: Chauffeur
English
Pronunciation
Noun
chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)
- A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
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- (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
Usage notes
As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.
Hypernyms
- (both senses): driver
Derived terms
Translations
a person employed to drive a motor car
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fire truck driver
Verb
chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)
- (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
- (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
Translations
intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur
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transitive: to transport someone in a motor car
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/
chauffeur (file) - Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
- Rhymes: -øːr
Noun
chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)
- driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃo.fœʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -œʁ
Noun
chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)
- (rail transport) stoker; fireman
- driver
- chauffeur de taxi
- taxi driver
- chauffeur
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “chauffeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
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