CHAUFFEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chauffeur mean? 

• CHAUFFEUR (noun)
  The noun CHAUFFEUR has 1 sense:

1. a man paid to drive a privately owned car

  Familiarity information: CHAUFFEUR used as a noun is very rare.

• CHAUFFEUR (verb)
  The verb CHAUFFEUR has 1 sense:

1. drive someone in a vehicle

  Familiarity information: CHAUFFEUR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAUFFEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man paid to drive a privately owned car

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chauffeur" is a kind of...):

driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chauffeur"):

chauffeuse (a woman chauffeur)

Derivation:

chauffeur (drive someone in a vehicle)

• CHAUFFEUR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chauffeur    ... he / she / it chauffeurs   
Past simple: chauffeured   
Past participle: chauffeured   
-ing form: chauffeuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drive someone in a vehicle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

chauffeur; drive around

Hypernyms (to "chauffeur" is one way to...):

drive (cause someone or something to move by driving)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

chauffeur (a man paid to drive a privately owned car)

 Context examples 

The thickset chauffeur, who had seated himself by the table, pushed forward his glass with some eagerness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had strolled out on to the terrace again, and along it to the further end where at a touch from the Baron’s chauffeur the great car shivered and chuckled.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A passenger sprang out of it and advanced swiftly towards him, while the chauffeur, a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache, settled down like one who resigns himself to a long vigil.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That's the secret of Castle Rackrent. Tell your chauffeur to go far away and spend an hour.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem's protégés—heard the shots—afterward he could only say that he hadn't thought anything much about them.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)