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chauf·feur    Audio Help   [shoh-fer, shoh-fur] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person employed to drive a private automobile or limousine for the owner.
2.a person employed to drive a car or limousine that transports paying passengers.
–verb (used with object)
3.to drive (a vehicle) as a chauffeur.
4.to transport by car: Saturday mornings I have to chauffeur the kids to their music lessons.
–verb (used without object)
5.to work as a chauffeur: He chauffeured for a time right after the war.

[Origin: 1895–1900; < F, equiv. to chauff(er) to heat (see chafe) + -eur -eur]
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chauf·feur    Audio Help   (shō'fər, shō-fûr')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   One employed to drive a private automobile.

v.   chauf·feured, chauf·feur·ing, chauf·feurs

v.   tr.
  1. To serve as a driver for (another).
  2. To transport in (a motor vehicle); drive: chauffeured the guests around town.

v.   intr.
To serve as a driver for another.


[French, stoker, from chauffer, to heat, stoke, from Old French chaufer; see chafe.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
chauffeur 
1899, originally "a motorist," from Fr., lit. "stoker," operator of a steam engine, Fr. nickname for early motorists, from chauffer "to heat," from O.Fr. chaufer (see chafe). The first motor-cars were steam-driven. Sense of "professional or paid driver of a private motor car" is from 1902. The verb is first attested 1917.

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chauffeur

noun
1. a man paid to drive a privately owned car 

verb
1. drive someone in a vehicle [syn: drive around

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
chauffeur [ˈʃəufə, (American) ʃəuˈfə:r] noun
a person employed as a car-driver for a rich or important person
Arabic: سائِق
Chinese (Simplified): (汽车)司机
Chinese (Traditional): (汽車)司機
Czech: šofér
Danish: chauffør
Dutch: chauffeur
Estonian: autojuht
Finnish: autonkuljettaja
French: chauffeur
German: der Fahrer
Greek: σοφέρ
Hungarian: sofőr
Icelandic: ekill, bílstjóri
Indonesian: sopir
Italian: autista
Japanese: おかかえ運転手
Korean: 고용 운전사
Latvian: šoferis
Lithuanian: šoferis, (samdytas) vairuotojas
Norwegian: (privat)sjåfør
Polish: szofer
Portuguese (Brazil): motorista
Portuguese (Portugal): motorista
Romanian: şofer
Russian: (наёмный) шофёр
Slovak: šofér
Slovenian: (poklicni) šofer
Spanish: chófer, chofer
Swedish: chaufför
Turkish: şoför
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.

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