chauffeur

«chauffeur» in Mova's school dictionary: a person whose job is driving someone else's car, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a chauffeur, chauffeurs); verb (chauffeur, chauffeurs, chauffeured, chauffeuring)

meaning for a pupil

1) A chauffeur is a person whose job is driving someone else's car, often for a rich or important person. tree →

2) To chauffeur someone is to drive them around, often as a job or a favour. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories chauffeurs drive rich families and royals and open the car door for them. In everyday life parents joke that they are their children's «chauffeur» because they drive them to clubs and parties. Phrases: a uniformed chauffeur, chauffeur-driven car, chauffeur someone around.

examples

• The chauffeur opened the car door for the queen. tree →
• A chauffeur-driven car took the actors to the film premiere. tree →
• Mum says she's our chauffeur because she drives us everywhere. tree →
• Dad chauffeured us to football, then to swimming, then to Grandma's. tree →
• The chauffeur wore a cap and white gloves. tree →
• In old films, rich families had a chauffeur and a butler. tree →
• My uncle works as a chauffeur for a hotel. tree →

note

A French word: pronounced SHOW-fur (UK) or show-FUR (US). Spelling trap: ch-au-ff-eur, double f. A taxi driver is not usually called a chauffeur.

In the corpora

• The Badger tells the chauffeur he won't be wanted, and the friends bundle Toad inside.
• The Badger to the chauffeur (the paid driver): «I'm afraid you won't be wanted to-day … Mr.
• Two fields away, a chauffeur and two large country policemen are running after him!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chauffeur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.