chauffeur
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
/ʃɒˈfɜː/
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/ʃɒˈfɜː/ · /ˈʃəʊfə/ · /ʃoʊˈfɝ/ · /ˈʃoʊfɚ/
Definition of chauffeur
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
“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.”
“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”
“I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur”
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noun
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A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
“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.”
“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”
“I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur”
- The driver of a fire truck.
- (historical)A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.
verb
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(intransitive)To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
“"Old Pearson. He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father. Such a dear old man - I've know him all my life."”
- (transitive)To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
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