English

Noun

Chauffeur ‎(plural Chauffeurs)

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

German

Etymology

Borrowing from French chauffeur.

Noun

Chauffeur m ‎(genitive Chauffeurs, plural Chauffeure)

1. chauffeur

Declension

Synonyms

• Fahrer

Related terms

• chauffieren

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• Chauffer

Etymology

Borrowing from French chauffeur.

Noun

Chauffeur m ‎(plural Chauffeuren)

1. driver, chauffeur

Related terms

• chaufféieren

English

Noun

chauffeur ‎(plural chauffeurs)

1. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     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.

2. (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.

Usage notes

As the French word chauffeur has masculine gender, a female chauffeur is sometimes called a chauffeuse or, jocularly, a chauffeuress.

Translations

Hypernyms

• (both senses): driver

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
2. (transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor car.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: chauf‧feur

Etymology

Borrowing from French chauffeur.

Noun

chauffeur m ‎(plural chauffeurs, diminutive chauffeurtje n)

1. driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)

French

Etymology

chauffer +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.fœʁ/
• Rhymes: -œʁ

Noun

chauffeur m ‎(plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)

1. driver

   chauffeur de taxi‎

   taxi driver

2. chauffeur

Descendants

• Czech: šofér (borrowed)
• Dutch: chauffeur (borrowed)
• English: chauffeur (borrowed)
• Persian: شوفر ‎(šufer) (borrowed)
• Polish: szofer (borrowed)
• Russian: шофёр ‎(šofjór) (borrowed)
• Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m/šòfēr (borrowed)
• Swedish: chaufför (borrowed)

Spanish

Noun

chauffeur m ‎(plural chauffeurs)

1. Alternative form of chofer