chauffeur
See also: Chauffeur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Homophone: shofar (some pronunciations of both words)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Noun edit
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[1]:
- 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.
- 1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy[2] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
- Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
- (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
Usage notes edit
As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.
Hypernyms edit
- (both senses): driver
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
person employed to drive a motor car
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fire truck driver
Verb edit
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 edit
intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur
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transitive: to transport someone in a motor car
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)
- driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus; usually to transport others or in a professional capacity, often both)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From chauffer (“to warm up”) + -eur.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)
- (rail transport) stoker; fireman
- driver
- chauffeur de taxi
- taxi driver
- chauffeur (private driver)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- → Catalan: xofer, xòfer
- → Czech: šofér
- → Danish: chauffør
- → Dutch: chauffeur
- → English: chauffeur
- ⇒ Esperanto: ŝoforo
- → German: Chauffeur
- → Hungarian: sofőr
- → Ladino: shofer, shofor
- → Moroccan Arabic: شيفور
- → Norwegian: sjåfør
- → Persian: شوفر (šufer)
- → Polish: szofer
- → Portuguese: chofer, chauffeur
- → Romanian: șofer
- → Russian: шофёр (šofjór)
- → Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m
- → Spanish: chofer
- → Swedish: chaufför
- → Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)
- → Turkish: şoför
Further reading edit
- “chauffeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
chauffeur m or f by sense (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)
- Alternative form of chofer