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/ʃo.fœʁ/
Translation
driver, chauffeur
Word origin
From chauffer ('to heat'), so originally the stoker who kept a steam engine's fire going. The word transferred to the person driving an early motor car, and English borrowed it in that narrower sense.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- chauffer
- English cognates
- chauffeur, chafe
Grammar
Examples
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The bus driver waited for us.
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She has worked as a taxi driver for three years.
klaxonné .
The lorry driver sounded his horn twice.
l'.
A driver was waiting for us outside the airport.
- locomotive.
My grandfather was an engine driver.
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