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    CHAUFFEUR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A man paid to drive a privately owned carplay

    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)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they chauffeur  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it chauffeurs  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: chauffeured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: chauffeured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: chauffeuring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Drive someone in a vehicleplay

    Synonyms:

    chauffeur; drive around

    Classified under:

    Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

    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)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the pool. Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.

    (The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

    A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his little party that night.

    (The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

    "Much better." I turned again to my new acquaintance. "This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there—" I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, "and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation."

    (The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

    In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O'Brien came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer who had his nose shot off in the war and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters, and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.

    (The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)


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