chauffeur
substantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ʃɒˈfɜː//
- Reino Unido//ˈʃəʊfə//
- Estados Unidos//ʃoʊˈfɝ//
- Estados Unidos//ˈʃoʊfɚ//
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
substantivo
- 1
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.
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis 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 chauffeur
I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
- 2
The driver of a fire truck.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₁éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *kalēō Latin caleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Latin calefaciō Classical Latin calfaciō Vulgar Latin *calfō Old French chaufer Middle French chauffer French chauffer French -eur French chauffeurbor. English chauffeur Borrowed from French chauffeur.
verbo
- 1
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."
- 2
To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
Formas
- plural
- chauffeurs
- pretérito
- chauffeured
- particípio passado
- chauffeured
- gerúndio
- chauffeuring
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- chauffeurs
chauffeur · A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
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