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Definition of chaperone
1 : a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety 4) accompanies one or more young unmarried women in public or in mixed company
2 : an older person who accompanies young people at a social gathering to ensure proper behavior; broadly : one delegated to ensure proper behavior I was a chaperone on one of my son's class trips.
3 : any of a class of proteins (such as heat-shock proteins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins —called also molecular chaperone
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Examples of chaperone in a Sentence
I was a chaperone on one of my son's school trips.
Recent Examples of chaperone from the Web
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Weatherspoon's mother later seized his cellphone and found a text message exchange with the accuser that the chaperone shared with police, according to the arrest documents.
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While Optimus Prime drifts through outer space in search of his ancestral home planet of Cybertron, his nemesis Megatron has vanished, leaving mankind and metalkind to duke it out without chaperones.
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Musicians played and partied, men and women mingled without proper chaperones, people told dirty jokes, and, if early European rulers’ conspiracy theories were more than just theories, political plots were born.
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And then there were the tea sandwiches, most created with tall chaperones in mind: curried shrimp spread; spicy deviled ham; chicken and pistachio salad on baguette rounds.
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In-house publicity help is a huge advantage, but ultimately like Catherine’s having Mrs. Allen as her chaperone in Bath: essential to the success of the project, yet no guarantee of it.
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The award also funds travel for Nayak and a chaperone to display his project at the EPA's National Sustainable Design Expo next year in Washington D.C.
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There's thrill and often a bemused adult chaperone along for the ride -- grownups like Andy James, who took his 9-year-old brother to see Grande at the Manchester Arena as an early birthday present.
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The bus carrying 26 children, three chaperones and the driver overturned at least once May 15 on Interstate 95 near Havre de Grace.
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Origin and Etymology of chaperone
French chaperon, literally, hood, from Medieval French, head covering, from chape
chaperone
chaperon
Definition of chaperone
chaperoned
;chaperoning
transitive verb
1 : escort
2 : to act as chaperone to or for chaperone a dance chaperoning teenagers
intransitive verb
: to act as a chaperone Two parents chaperoned at the school dance.
Examples of chaperone in a Sentence
Two parents chaperoned the children.
My mom always chaperoned the school dances.
Recent Examples of chaperone from the Web
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TMZ reports that the Toronto rapper flew in to chaperone his second cousin Jalaah Moore and her date to the dance at Fairley High School, making a stylish entrance by ordering them a white Rolls Royce.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'chaperone'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of chaperone
see 1chaperone
CHAPERONE Defined for English Language Learners
chaperone
playDefinition of chaperone for English Language Learners
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: someone (such as a teacher or parent) who goes with children on a trip or to a school dance to make sure that the children behave properly
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: a person in the past who went with a young unmarried woman to social events in order to make sure that the woman behaved properly
chaperone
Definition of chaperone for English Language Learners
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: to be a chaperone to or for (someone or something)
CHAPERONE Defined for Kids
chaperon
\ˈsha-pə-ˌrōn\Definition of chaperone for Students
: a person who goes with and is responsible for a group of young people
chaperon
Definition of chaperone for Students
chaperoned
;chaperoning
: to go with and supervise a group of young people : act as a chaperone Several parents chaperoned the school dance.
Medical Dictionary
chaperone
playchaperone protein
Medical Definition of chaperone
: any of a class of proteins (such as heat shock proteins and chaperonins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins As the proteins are produced, molecules called chaperones fold them into the three-dimensional form they are supposed to take.—Andres M. Lozano et al., Scientific American, July 2005—called also molecular chaperone
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