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Definition: Chauffeur |
ChauffeurNoun1. A man paid to drive a privately owned car. Verb1. Drive someone in a vehicle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chauffeur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Etymology: Chauffeur \Chauf`feur"\, noun. [French expression, literally, stoker.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A man who is smart enough to operate an automobile, but clever enough not to own one. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Occupations | Drives private car as ordered by owner or other passenger and performs other miscellaneous duties: Assists passengers to enter and leave car and holds umbrellas in wet weather. Keeps car clean, polished, and in operating condition. May make minor repairs, such as fixing punctures, cleaning spark plugs, or adjusting carburetor. May assist CARETAKER (domestic ser.) with heavy work. May groom and exercise pets. (references) |
| Drives automobile to transport office personnel and visitors of commercial or industrial establishment. Performs miscellaneous errands, such as carrying mail to and from post office. May make overnight drives and extended trips requiring irregular hours. May be required to have chauffeurs license. May clean vehicle and make minor repairs or adjustments. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A chauffeur is someone who is driving a car as a job, specifically meaning a luxury car as a limousine or a "stretch limo".Rich people often employ chauffeurs for driving them in their cars, and there are services offering limousines including chauffeurs for rent, very similar to, but more luxurious than, taking a cab.
In a Rich household, it is not uncommon to have a chauffeur under your employ, much like the common housemaid or butler.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chauffeur."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, motorcycle, or car (for bicycles and mounted animals and, at least in the UK, motorcycles, the corresponding activity is called riding).In rail transport steering is done by controlling the switch points; this can be done:
Driving consists of knowing how to operate the mechanisms which control the speed and direction (which in technical terminology are both components of the velocity), and the braking of the vehicle, but especially how to do so safely.
- by other personnel than the driver, often remotely from a traffic control point
- by the driver from his or her position
- by the driver getting out and operating the switch manually.
The skill of safe driving is necessary to avoid collisions, which kill many thousands of people annually. Safe driving is much more than following the rules of the road. It goes beyond that into the cultivation of good habits, maintaining attention, and a thoughtful, cooperative attitude that avoids and prevents accidents: defensive driving.
See also Chauffeur, Driver's license, Highway Code (official UK driving manual), Performance driving techniques
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Driving."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHAUFFEUR | English | Promote-Chauffeur | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ChauffeurSynonym: drive around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chauffeur |
| English words defined with "chauffeur": chauffeuse ♦ draw up ♦ haul up ♦ limo, limousine ♦ pull up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chauffeur": cab driver ♦ SCORCHER, self drive car ♦ TAXI DRIVER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chauffeur": Chauffeuse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chauffeur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (chauffeur, driver), French (boiler, bus driver, cabby, cabman, chauffeur, driver, Stoker, Waggoner, warmer), German (chauffeur, conductor, driver), Spanish (chauffeur, driver). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back (Love in the Afternoon; writing credit: Claude Anet; I.A.L. Diamond) And over the garage there lived a chauffeur by the name of Fairchild, imported from England years ago, together with a Rolls Royce; and a daughter, named Sabrina (Sabrina; writing credit: Samuel A. Taylor; Billy Wilder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Chauffeur & the Lady (1972) Alexis gentleman chauffeur (1938) Chauffeur Antoinette (1932) Die Dame und ihr Chauffeur (1928) My Lord the Chauffeur (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chauffeur Teddy: Anything ahead, Bill?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Charles Rolls in his Rolls-Royce with Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and chauffeur, Shellbeach, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chauffeur waiting on the main street of Brattleboro, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Arthur Shaw is another resident of Bantam. Her husband is a private chauffeur in Litchfield. Mr. Dante is watching her operate a small drill press. Mrs. Shaw has volunteered to serve as one of Bantam's air. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman getting into back seat of car as chauffeur holds door, Washington, D.C., area. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Burkina Faso | But within weeks the domestic opposition took to the streets to protest the murder of leading independent journalist Norbert Zongo, whose investigations of the death of the President's brother's chauffeur suggested involvement of the Compaore family. (references) |
Human Rights | Burkina Faso | Kafando and two other former Presidential Guards had been convicted and sentenced to prison in August 2000 for the killing of David Ouedraogo, the chauffeur of President Compaore's brother Francois. (references) |
Travel | Botswana | Gaborone has several 24-hour door-to-door chauffeur services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Chauffeur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chauffeur" is used about 293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 293 | 16,984 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chauffeur": chauffeur-driven, chauffeur-gardener, chauffeur-handyman, chauffeur-maintained, chauffeur-valet. | |
Ending with "chauffeur": ex-chauffeur, porter-cum-chauffeur. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chauffeur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shofer (busman, driver), shërbej si shofer. (various references) | |
Arabic | سائق السيارة (wheelman), سائق (carter, driver, haul, jockey, motorist, operator, teamster). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шофьор (driver, motorist, wheelman). (various references) | |
Catalan | xofer (conductor, driver). (various references) | |
Chinese | 汽车夫, 司機 (driver). (various references) | |
Czech | šofér (driver). (various references) | |
Danish | fører (conductor, driver), chauffør (conductor, driver). (various references) | |
Dutch | chauffeur (driver), bestuurder (administrator, conductor, director, driver, governor, manager). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝoforo (driver). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bilstjóri (driver). (various references) | |
Farsi | راننده ماشین , رانندگی کردن , شوفر (Driver). (various references) | |
Finnish | ajaja (champion advocate, driver). (various references) | |
French | chauffeur. (various references) | |
German | fahrer (conductor, cyclist, driver, drivers, rider), chauffeur (conductor, driver). (various references) | |
Greek | σωφέρ (cabby, cabman), σοφέρ, οδηγόσ αυτοκίνητου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "' שכיר, "' (driver, motorist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sofőr (driver). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sopir (driver). (various references) | |
Italian | autista (driver). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 運転手 (driver). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | う"て"しゅ (driver). (various references) | |
Korean | 운 사 (driver, drivers). (various references) | |
Manx | immanagh gleashtan, immanagh (driver, driving, driving iron, drover, impelling). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sjåfør (conductor, driver). (various references) | |
Papiamen | chufùr (driver). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auffeurchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chofer (busman, driver), motorista (conductor, driver, motorist). (various references) | |
Romanian | şofer (Carman, driver, operator). (various references) | |
Russian | шофер (driver). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vozač (driver, motorist), šofer (driver). (various references) | |
Spanish | chófer (conductor, dove, driver, motorist), mecánico (driver, engineer, fitterman, grease monkey, machine, machinist, mechanic, mechanical, mechanistic, perfunctory, power driven, repairman, rigger, soulless), chauffeur (driver). (various references) | |
Swedish | chaufför (cabby, cabman, driver). (various references) | |
Tagalog | tsupér (driver). (various references) | |
Turkish | xoför (driver), şoför (driver, driving), özel şoförlük yapmak, özel şoför. (various references) | |
Turkmen | юofяor (r) (driver). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шофер (driver), водій. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người lái xe. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chauffeur": chauffeured, chauffeuring, chauffeurs. (additional references) | |
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"Chauffeur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chaeuffer, chaffeur, chaufer, chaufeur, chauffeaur, chauffuer, chauffure, cheauffer, cheufeur, cheuffer, choffeur, chouffer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chauffeur" (pronounced shōfer" or shō"fer) |
| 3 | -ō" f er | gopher, loafer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-h-r-u-u" | |
-1 letter: chauffer. | |
-2 letters: chaffer, chaufer, chuffer. | |
-3 letters: chafer. | |
-4 letters: chafe, chaff, chare, chufa, chuff, facer, farce, feuar, reach, ruche, ruffe. | |
-5 letters: ache, acre, arch, cafe, caff, care, char, chef, cuff, cure, curf, each, ecru, face, fare, fear, frae, hare, hear, huff, race, raff, rhea, ruff, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-f-h-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: chauffeurs. | |
+2 letters: chauffeured. | |
+3 letters: chauffeuring. | |
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