"chauffeur" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /ʃo.fœʁ/ Audio: Fr-chauffeur.ogg Forms: chauffeurs [plural], chauffeuse [feminine]
Rhymes: -œʁ Etymology: From chauffer (“to warm up”) + -eur. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|chauffer|-eur|t1=to warm up}} chauffer (“to warm up”) + -eur Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|f=+}} chauffeur m (plural chauffeurs, feminine chauffeuse)
  1. (rail transport) stoker; fireman Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-chauffeur-fr-noun-GX48p3fP Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -eur Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 93 3 3 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -eur: 79 11 11 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
  2. driver Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-chauffeur-fr-noun-tN74IXyt
  3. chauffeur (private driver) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-chauffeur-fr-noun-tf0l0Kpb
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chauffard

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        }
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          "expansion": "→ German: Chauffeur",
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        }
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      "text": "→ German: Chauffeur"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "sofőr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hungarian: sofőr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Hungarian: sofőr"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "→ Ladino: shofer, shofor"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ary",
            "2": "شيفور",
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          },
          "expansion": "→ Moroccan Arabic: شيفور",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Moroccan Arabic: شيفور"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "no",
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Norwegian: sjåfør",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: sjåfør"
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "fa",
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            "bor": "1",
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          },
          "expansion": "→ Persian: شوفر (šufer)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Persian: شوفر (šufer)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
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          "expansion": "→ Polish: szofer",
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      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "pt",
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            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: chofer, chauffeur",
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        }
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Romanian: șofer",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "шофёр",
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        }
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          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m",
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        }
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Spanish: chofer",
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      "text": "→ Swedish: chaufför"
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          "expansion": "→ Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)"
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      "depth": 1,
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Turkish: şoför",
          "name": "desc"
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        {
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "rail transport"
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          "fireman"
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          "driver"
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        "masculine"
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        [
          "chauffeur",
          "chauffeur#English"
        ]
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        "masculine"
      ]
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    },
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    "French nouns",
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        }
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "šofér",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Czech: šofér",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Czech: šofér"
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "chauffør",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Danish: chauffør",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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            "2": "chauffeur",
            "bor": "1"
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        }
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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "chauffeur",
            "bor": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "eo",
            "2": "ŝoforo",
            "der": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Esperanto: ŝoforo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Chauffeur",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Chauffeur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Chauffeur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hu",
            "2": "sofőr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hungarian: sofőr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hungarian: sofőr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lad",
            "2": "shofer",
            "3": "shofor",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ladino: shofer, shofor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ladino: shofer, shofor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "1": "ary",
            "2": "شيفور",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Moroccan Arabic: شيفور",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Moroccan Arabic: شيفور"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "no",
            "2": "sjåfør",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian: sjåfør",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: sjåfør"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "fa",
            "2": "شوفر",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "šufer"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Persian: شوفر (šufer)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Persian: شوفر (šufer)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "2": "szofer",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: szofer",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: szofer"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "chofer",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
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      "text": "→ Portuguese: chofer, chauffeur"
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "șofer",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: șofer",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: șofer"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "шофёр",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: шофёр (šofjór)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: шофёр (šofjór)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "шофер",
            "alt": "шо̀фе̄р m",
            "bor": "1",
            "sc": "Cyrl"
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          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: шо̀фе̄р m"
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            "2": "chofer",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: chofer",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
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            "2": "chaufför",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Swedish: chaufför",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Swedish: chaufför"
    },
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            "2": "โชเฟอร์",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Thai: โชเฟอร์ (choo-fə̂ə)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
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            "1": "tr",
            "2": "şoför",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: şoför",
          "name": "desc"
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        "stoker; fireman"
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          "rail transport"
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          "fireman"
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          "chauffeur#English"
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      "audio": "Fr-chauffeur.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/Fr-chauffeur.ogg/Fr-chauffeur.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Fr-chauffeur.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chauffeur"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.