chauffeur

UK/ʃɒˈfɜː//ʃoʊˈfɝ/

chauffeur noun: a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

Noun (1)

chauffeur (plural chauffeurs)

A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
- He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
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  When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
  50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
  Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G., African-American Vernacular English
The driver of a fire truck.

Synonyms:

engineer

Verb

chauffeur (third-person singular simple present chauffeurs, present participle chauffeuring, simple past and past participle chauffeured)

(intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
- "Old Pearson. He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father. Such a dear old man - I've know him all my life."1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 75
(transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.

Synonyms:

transport, bring, shuttle

Noun (2) capitalized: Chauffeur

Chauffeur (plural Chauffeurs)

(historical) A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.

chauffeur meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Sinhala and Arabic

chauffeur in Bengali

ভাড়া করা গাড়ি চালক

chauffeur in Kannada

ಮೋಟಾರು ನಡೆಸುವವನು, ಚಾಲಕ, ಡ್ರೈವರು

chauffeur in Sinhala

person employed to drive a motor car: රියදුරා riyadurā

chauffeur in Arabic

person employed to drive a motor car: سائِق sāʔiq

More languagesFewer languages

chauffeur in Malay: pemandu, drebar, supir
chauffeur in Indonesian: supir, sopir
chauffeur in Persian: شوفر šofer
chauffeur in Thai: คนขับ kon-kàp
chauffeur in Vietnamese: tài xế

Examples of chauffeur in a sentence

A uniformed chauffeur collected us for the party.
Weary of chauffeuring, mom allowed us to drive short distances unlicensed.
Somebody's chauffeur probably got a scratch on the El Dorado, huh?"

All 27 example sentences with chauffeur

Synonyms of chauffeur

Forms of chauffeur

Noun
plural	chauffeurs
plural	Chauffeurs
Verb
third-person singular present	chauffeurs
present participle	chauffeuring
past participle	chauffeured
past	chauffeured

Plural of chauffeur: chauffeurs

Origin of chauffeur

Borrowed from French chauffeur.

From French chauffeur (“heater, stoker”), as they were said to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

Words formed from chauffeur

Phrases with chauffeur

chauffeur drivers

Words that rhyme with chauffeur

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Questions about chauffeur

What does chauffeur mean?: Chauffeur means a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
What is chauffeur in Bengali?: Chauffeur in Bengali is ভাড়া করা গাড়ি চালক. See Chauffeur meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is chauffeur?: Chauffeur can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce chauffeur?: Chauffeur is pronounced /ʃɒˈfɜː/ (UK).
What is the plural of chauffeur?: The plural of chauffeur is chauffeurs.

Words near chauffeur in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: chauffeur (page history and authors); Chauffeur (page history and authors); chauffeur (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chauffeur (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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