chauffeur
Appearance
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/
- 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.
- Synonym: engineer
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
|
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
|
transitive: to transport someone in a motor car
|
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]- → Aukan: safeli
- → Caribbean Javanese: sopir
- → Indonesian: sopir
- → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
- → West Frisian: sjauffeur
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
- → Javanese: (New Caledonian) chauffeur
- → 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
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Firefighting
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/øːr
- Rhymes:Dutch/øːr/2 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Occupations
- French terms suffixed with -eur
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:French/œʁ
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Rail transportation
- French terms with usage examples
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple plurals
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense