chauffeur
See also: Chauffeur
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
Usage notesEdit
As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.
HypernymsEdit
- (both senses): driver
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
person employed to drive a motor car
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fire truck driver
VerbEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
intransitive: to be, or act as a chauffeur
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transitive: to transport someone in a motor car
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
chauffer (“to warm up”) + -eur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)
- (rail transport) stoker; fireman
- driver
- chauffeur de taxi
- taxi driver
- chauffeur
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Catalan: xofer, xòfer
- → Czech: šofér
- → Danish: chauffør
- → Dutch: chauffeur
- → English: chauffeur
- → German: Chauffeur
- → Moroccan Arabic: شيفور
- → Norwegian: sjåfør
- → Persian: شوفر (šufer)
- → Polish: szofer
- → Portuguese: chofer
- → Romanian: șofer
- → Russian: шофёр (šofjór)
- → Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m
- → Spanish: chofer
- → Swedish: chaufför
- → Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)
Further readingEdit
- “chauffeur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
chauffeur m or f (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)
- Alternative form of chofer