chaperone
/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/US/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
chaperone noun: an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
Noun
chaperone (plural chaperones)
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
- An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
Verb
chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)
- To act as a chaperone.
- They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 183
- 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27
- To work as a chaperone.
chaperone meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
chaperone in Tamil
- பேணுநர்
chaperone in Urdu
- older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour
- مَحْرَم maḥram
chaperone in Malayalam
- escort, companion, duenna
- തുണ, അകമ്പടി, കന്യകയ്ക്കു തുണയായി പോകുന്ന സ്ത്രീ, അകമ്പടിസേവിക്കുന്നവൾ, ഭുജിഷ്യ, തോഴി
- accompany, escort, attend
- അകമ്പടിസേവിക്കുക, അനുഗമിക്കുക, തുണപോകുക, കൂട്ടായിരിക്കുക, പരിചരിക്കുക, ഉപകരിക്കുക
chaperone in Kannada
- ಸಂರಕ್ಷಕಿ, ಅಂಗರಕ್ಷಕಿ, ಪಾಲಿಕೆ, ಜತೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದು ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ನೀಡು, ಪಾಲಿಕೆಯಾಗಿ ವರ್ತಿಸು
Examples of chaperone in a sentence
- Motti’s dates are similar to bashows, or chaperoned quasi-dates in one of the parents’ homes (chasidic).
- "I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely," remarked Mrs.Green.
- TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
Forms of chaperone
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chaperones |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chaperones |
| present participle | chaperoning |
| past participle | chaperoned |
| past | chaperoned |
Origin of chaperone
See chaperon.
Words formed from chaperone
Questions about chaperone
- What does chaperone mean?
- Chaperone means an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- What is chaperone in Tamil?
- Chaperone in Tamil is பேணுநர். See Chaperone meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chaperone?
- Chaperone can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chaperone?
- Chaperone is pronounced /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ (US).
- What is the plural of chaperone?
- The plural of chaperone is chaperones.
Words near chaperone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chaperone (page history and authors); chaperone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chaperone (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); chaperone (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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