chaperoning
chaperoning is the present participle and gerund of chaperone.
Meaning of chaperone
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
- To work as a chaperone.
Noun
chaperoning (countable and uncountable, plural chaperonings)
- The act or process of a person being chaperoned.
- In all my shopping chaperonings, I do not remember to have leant against the door-post, or stood with my back to the fire-place, […]1826, Peter George Patmore, Rejected Articles, page 239
Forms of chaperoning
| plural | chaperonings |
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Questions about chaperoning
- What does chaperoning mean?
- Chaperoning means the act or process of a person being chaperoned.
- What is chaperoning the present participle and gerund of?
- Chaperoning is the present participle and gerund of chaperone.
- What part of speech is chaperoning?
- Chaperoning is a noun.
- What is the plural of chaperoning?
- The plural of chaperoning is chaperonings.
Words near chaperoning in the dictionary
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