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chauffeur — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chauffeur noun Someone employed to drive a car for another person, often in a formal or luxury setting.
  • driver noun A person who operates a vehicle.
  • fireman noun Someone trained to fight fires (traditionally referring to a man).
  • stoker noun A person who tends a fire or furnace, especially on a steamship or steam train.

Senses

chauffeur is used for these senses in English:

  • chauffeur A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
  • driver A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
  • fireman (rail transport, nautical) A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship.
  • stoker A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

chauffeur — full definition

  1. noun Someone employed to drive a car for another person, often in a formal or luxury setting.
  2. verb To drive someone around as their driver.

driver — full definition

  1. noun A person who operates a vehicle.
  2. noun Software that lets a computer communicate with a piece of hardware.
  3. noun A golf club used to hit the ball a long distance from the tee.
  4. noun A factor or cause that leads to a particular result.

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