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chauffeur

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɒˈfɜː/, /ˈʃəʊfə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃoʊˈfɝ/, /ˈʃoʊfɚ/

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• Homophone: shofar (some pronunciations of both words)
• 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^[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

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

• (both senses): driver

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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chauffeur

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Borrowed from French chauffeur.

• IPA^(key): /ʃoːˈføːr/, /ʃɑu̯ˈføːr/

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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; usually to transport others or in a professional capacity, often both)

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

From 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 (private driver)

• chauffard

• “chauffeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

1. Alternative form of chofer