chauffeur

EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/
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Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

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

Albanian: shofer (sq) m
Arabic: سائِق‎ m (sāʾiq)
Hijazi Arabic: سَوَّاق‎ m (sawwāg)
Armenian: ավտովարորդ (hy) (avtovarord)
Azerbaijani: sürücü (az), şofer
Belarusian: шафёр m (šafjór), кіро́ўца m (kiróŭca), вадзі́цель m (vadzícjelʹ)
Bulgarian: шофьо́р (bg) m (šofjór)
Catalan: xofer (ca) m, xòfer (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 司機 (zh), 司机 (zh) (sījī)
Czech: šofér (cs) m, řidič (cs) m
Danish: chauffør (da) c
Dutch: privéchauffeur m
Esperanto: ŝoforo, ŝoforino (female)
Estonian: autojuht
Faroese: bilstjóri m, bilførari m, sjaførur m (colloquial)
Finnish: autonkuljettaja (fi), kuljettaja (fi)
French: chauffeur (fr) m, chauffeuse (fr) f
Galician: chofer m
Georgian: მძღოლი (mʒɣoli)
German: Chauffeur (de) m, Chauffeurin (de) f, Chauffeuse (de) f (Swiss German), Berufschauffeur m, Berufschauffeurin f, Schofför (de) m (obsolete), Schofförin f (obsolete)
Hungarian: sofőr (hu)
Iban: deriba
Icelandic: bílstjóri m, einkabílstjóri m
Ido: motoristo
Indonesian: supir (id), sopir (id)
Interlingue: chofero
Italian: chauffeur (it) m, autista (it) m or f
Japanese: 運転手 (ja) (うんてんしゅ, untenshu)
Kazakh: шопыр (şopır), жүргізуші (kk) (jürgizwşi)

Korean: 운전사 (ko) (unjeonsa) (運轉士), 기사 (ko) (gisa) (技士 (ko))
Kyrgyz: шофёр (ky) (şofyor)
Latvian: vadītājs (lv) m, šoferis m
Lithuanian: vairuotojas m, šoferis m
Lombard: çofœr, autista
Macedonian: шо́фер m (šófer), во́зач m (vózač)
Malay: pemandu, drebar, supir
Maltese: xufier m, xufiera f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjåfør (no) m

Nynorsk: sjåfør m
Occitan: chòfer, chofer
Persian: شوفر‎ (fa) (šofer)
Polish: szofer (pl) m, szoferka (pl) f
Portuguese: motorista (pt) m or f, chofer (pt) m or f
Romanian: șofer (ro) m
Russian: шофёр (ru) m (šofjór), персона́льный води́тель m (personálʹnyj vodítelʹ), води́тель (ru) m (vodítelʹ), води́тельница (ru) f (vodítelʹnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: возач m, возачица f

Roman: vòzāč (sh) m, vozàčica (sh) f
Slovak: šofér m, vodič m
Slovene: šofer m, voznik (sl) m
Spanish: chófer (es) m, chofer (es) m
Swedish: chaufför (sv) c
Tajik: шофёр (tg) (šofyor)
Thai: คนขับ (kon-kàp)
Turkish: şoför (tr), sürücü (tr)
Turkmen: şofýor
Ukrainian: шофе́р m (šofér), во́дій m (vódij)
Uzbek: shofyor (uz)
Vietnamese: tài xế (vi)
Volapük: joför (vo), hijoför (male), jijoför (female)
Yiddish: שאָפֿער‎ m (shofer), שאָפֿערשע‎ f (shofershe)

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.
Synonyms: transport, bring, shuttle