chauffeur

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

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:

     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.

2. (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.

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

• (both senses): driver

• chauffeuress
• chauffeurless
• chauffeurship

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.

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/

• chauffeur

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• Hyphenation: chauf‧feur
• Rhymes: -øːr

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

1. driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)

• buschauffeur
• camionchauffeur
• taxichauffeur
• vrachtwagenchauffeur

chauffer (“to warm up”) +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.fœʁ/

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• Rhymes: -œʁ

chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)

1. (rail transport) stoker; fireman
2. driver

   chauffeur de taxi

   taxi driver

3. chauffeur

• chauffard

• → Czech: šofér
• → Dutch: chauffeur
• → English: chauffeur
• → German: Chauffeur
• → Norwegian: sjåfør
• → Persian: شوفر‎ (šufer)
• → Polish: szofer
• → Portuguese: chofer
• → Romanian: șofer
• → Russian: шофёр (šofjór)
• → Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m
• → Spanish: chofer
• → Swedish: chaufför
• → Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)

• “chauffeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

chauffeur m or f (plural chauffeurs or chauffeur)

1. Alternative form of chofer