chauffeur

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ʃɒˈfɜː/
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/ʃɒˈfɜː/ · /ˈʃəʊfə/ · /ʃoʊˈfɝ/ · /ˈʃoʊfɚ/

Definition of chauffeur

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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”
  2. The driver of a fire truck.
  3. (historical)A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.

verb

  1. (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."”
  2. (transitive)To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

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