HOW TO PRONOUNCE
chauffeur
/ʃoʊˈfɝ/
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What does chauffeur mean?
noun
- A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
- The driver of a fire truck.
verb
- To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
More meanings (2)
verb
- To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
noun
- (historical) A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃoʊˈfɝ/
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See this word in context.
I led her out to her automobile, shoved her in, and murmured, "John Grier Home" to the chauffeur.
A man of about forty, well built and with strong, regular features, stepped out, and paying the chauffeur dismissed him.
More book examples (3)
Suppose we have an automobile, running at the rate of ten miles an hour, and the chauffeur turns the steering wheel ten degrees.
It was copied with mathematical exactness, and highly coloured in a manner to throw into profound melancholy the chauffeur of a coloured supplement press.
It was found that he gave long accounts of his experiences as a chauffeur, rendering his story with fluent details about hairbreadth escapes and other adventures.