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chauffeur

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

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Noun

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chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)

  1. 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
  2. (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
    Synonym: engineer

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As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

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Verb

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chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)

  1. (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
  2. (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
    Synonyms: transport, bring, shuttle

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
  • Rhymes: -øːr

Noun

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chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n, feminine chauffeuse)

  1. 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)

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Descendants

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  • Aukan: safeli
  • Caribbean Javanese: sopir
  • Indonesian: sopir
  • Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦥꦶꦂ (sopir)
  • West Frisian: sjauffeur

French

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Etymology

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From chauffer (to warm up) +‎ -eur.

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chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)

  1. (rail transport) stoker; fireman
  2. driver
    chauffeur de taxi
    taxi driver
  3. chauffeur (private driver)

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Spanish

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Noun

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chauffeur m or f by sense (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)

  1. Alternative form of chofer