chaperone

English

Etymology

See chaperon.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

Noun

chaperone (plural chaperones)

1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
2. (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
3. (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

Derived terms

• bichaperone
• chaperoneship
• chaperome
• chaperonic
• cochaperone
• superchaperone

Translations

older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監護人／监护人 (zh) (jiānhùrén)

• Czech: garde (cs) n, gardedáma f
• Esperanto: eskortanto m, eskortantino f
• Finnish: esiliina (fi), kaitsija (fi)
• French: chaperon (fr) m
• German: Anstandsdame (de) f (female), Anstandswauwau (de) m (colloquial); Aufsichtsperson (de) f, Begleitperson f, Begleitung (de) f, Aufpasser (de) m
• Greek: συνοδός (el) f (synodós)
• Irish: bean choimhdeachta f (lady’s maid)
• Japanese: 保護者 (ja) (ほごしゃ, hogosha)
• Polish: przyzwoitka (pl) f
• Portuguese: guardião (pt) m, guardiã f, mentor (pt) m, mentora (pt) f, aia (pt) f, aio (pt) m
• Russian: дуэ́нья (ru) f (duénʹja) (dated)
• Spanish: dueña (es) f, carabina (es) f, chaperón m
• Swedish: chaperon (sv), förkläde (sv)
• Urdu: مَحْرَم m (maḥram) (loosely - one who cannot be married to)

protein that aids in folding other proteins

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:分子伴侣 (fēnzǐ bànlǚ, literally “molecular companion”)

• Finnish: kaitsijaproteiini, saperoni
• German: Chaperon m
• Hungarian: dajkafehérje sg
• Japanese: シャペロン (shaperon)
• Polish: białko opiekuńcze n

Verb

chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)

1. To act as a chaperone.
   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act V”, in Pygmalion‎^[1]:

     DOOLITTLE […] If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.

   • 2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27:

     'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'

   • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49:

     TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.

2. (UK, business) To work as a chaperone.

Translations

act as a chaperone

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陪伴 (zh) (péibàn)，监护 (zh) (jiānhù)，起到分子伴侣作用 (qǐdào fēnzǐbànlǚ zuòyòng)(biochemistry)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: olla esiliinana (jollekin)
• French: chaperonner (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: als Beschützerin begleiten, Anstandsdame spielen, beaufsichtigen (de), begleiten (de), eskortieren (de)
• Greek: συνοδεύω (el) (synodévo)
• Italian: sciaperonare
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: acompanhar (pt), assistir (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Chaperone (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• canephore