"chaperone" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ [General-American], /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vanderdecken-chaperone.wav [UK] Forms: chaperones [plural]
Etymology: See chaperon. Head templates: {{en-noun}} chaperone (plural chaperones)
  1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman. Translations (older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour): 監護人 (Chinese Mandarin), 监护人 (jiānhùrén) (Chinese Mandarin), garde [neuter] (Czech), gardedáma [feminine] (Czech), eskortanto [masculine] (Esperanto), eskortantino [feminine] (Esperanto), esiliina (Finnish), kaitsija (Finnish), chaperon [masculine] (French), Anstandsdame [feminine] (German), Anstandswauwau [colloquial, masculine] (German), Aufsichtsperson [feminine] (German), Begleitperson [feminine] (German), Begleitung [feminine] (German), Aufpasser [masculine] (German), συνοδός (synodós) [feminine] (Greek), bean choimhdeachta (english: lady’s maid) [feminine] (Irish), 保護者 (hogosha) (alt: ほごしゃ) (Japanese), przyzwoitka [feminine] (Polish), guardião [masculine] (Portuguese), guardiã [feminine] (Portuguese), mentor [masculine] (Portuguese), mentora [feminine] (Portuguese), aia [feminine] (Portuguese), aio [masculine] (Portuguese), дуэ́нья (duénʹja) [dated, feminine] (Russian), dueña [feminine] (Spanish), carabina [feminine] (Spanish), chaperón [masculine] (Spanish), chaperon (Swedish), förkläde (Swedish), مَحْرَم (maḥram) (english: loosely - one who cannot be married to) [masculine] (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-chaperone-en-noun-EfOGKNf7 Disambiguation of 'older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour': 90 2 8
  2. (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions. Categories (topical): Biochemistry Translations (protein that aids in folding other proteins): kaitsijaproteiini (Finnish), saperoni (Finnish), Chaperon [masculine] (German), dajkafehérje [singular] (Hungarian), シャペロン (shaperon) (Japanese), białko opiekuńcze [neuter] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-chaperone-en-noun-SDbBW9gY Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'protein that aids in folding other proteins': 9 72 19
  3. (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Business, Brexit
    Sense id: en-chaperone-en-noun-sbiqYVSe Disambiguation of Brexit: 3 5 80 1 11 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 23 35 3 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 20 51 2 12 Topics: business
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bichaperone, chaperoneship, chaperome, chaperonic, cochaperone, superchaperone

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ [General-American], /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vanderdecken-chaperone.wav [UK] Forms: chaperones [present, singular, third-person], chaperoning [participle, present], chaperoned [participle, past], chaperoned [past]
Etymology: See chaperon. Head templates: {{en-verb}} chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)
  1. To act as a chaperone. Translations (act as a chaperone): 陪伴 (péibàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 监护 (jiānhù) (Chinese Mandarin), 起到分子伴侣作用 (qǐdào fēnzǐbànlǚ zuòyòng) [biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, physical-sciences, natural-sciences, biology] (Chinese Mandarin), olla esiliinana (jollekin) (Finnish), chaperonner (French), als Beschützerin begleiten (German), Anstandsdame spielen (German), beaufsichtigen (German), begleiten (German), eskortieren (German), συνοδεύω (synodévo) (Greek), sciaperonare (Italian), acompanhar (Portuguese), assistir (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-chaperone-en-verb-3FcUY7~3 Disambiguation of 'act as a chaperone': 89 11
  2. (UK, business) To work as a chaperone. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Business
    Sense id: en-chaperone-en-verb-vt4jOVLe Categories (other): British English Topics: business

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
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          "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
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          "english": "lady’s maid",
          "lang": "Irish",
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          "english": "loosely - one who cannot be married to",
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          "roman": "maḥram",
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          "_dis1": "9 72 19",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "ref": "2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27",
          "text": "'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49",
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          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "péibàn",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "word": "陪伴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiānhù",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "word": "监护"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qǐdào fēnzǐbànlǚ zuòyòng",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "topics": [
            "biochemistry",
            "microbiology",
            "chemistry",
            "physical-sciences",
            "natural-sciences",
            "biology"
          ],
          "word": "起到分子伴侣作用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "word": "olla esiliinana (jollekin)"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "word": "chaperonner"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
          "word": "als Beschützerin begleiten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
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          "_dis1": "89 11",
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          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
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          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
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          "sense": "act as a chaperone",
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          "_dis1": "89 11",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "監護人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiānhùrén",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "监护人"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
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    },
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "eskortantino"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "esiliina"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "kaitsija"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chaperon"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Anstandsdame"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "Anstandswauwau"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Aufsichtsperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Begleitperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Aufpasser"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synodós",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συνοδός"
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      "code": "ga",
      "english": "lady’s maid",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "alt": "ほごしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hogosha",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "保護者"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "przyzwoitka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guardião"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guardiã"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mentor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mentora"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "duénʹja",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дуэ́нья"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dueña"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carabina"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chaperón"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "chaperon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "word": "förkläde"
    },
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      "code": "ur",
      "english": "loosely - one who cannot be married to",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "maḥram",
      "sense": "older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَحْرَم"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "note": "分子伴侣 (fēnzǐ bànlǚ, literally “molecular companion”)",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "word": "kaitsijaproteiini"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "word": "saperoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Chaperon"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "dajkafehérje"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shaperon",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "word": "シャペロン"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "protein that aids in folding other proteins",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "białko opiekuńcze"
    }
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}

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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "péibàn",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "陪伴"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiānhù",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "监护"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qǐdào fēnzǐbànlǚ zuòyòng",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "chemistry",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences",
        "biology"
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      "word": "起到分子伴侣作用"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "olla esiliinana (jollekin)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "chaperonner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "als Beschützerin begleiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "Anstandsdame spielen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "beaufsichtigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "begleiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "eskortieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synodévo",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "συνοδεύω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "sciaperonare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "acompanhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act as a chaperone",
      "word": "assistir"
    }
  ],
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}

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