CHAUFFEUR Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of chauffeur

as in driver

a person whose job is to drive people around in a car told the chauffeur to pull the limousine up to the hotel's front entrance

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Noun

As a student there, our daughter Grace crossed it for six years, usually with me as chauffeur. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Davidson was 18 and working as a chauffeur in real life, driving a guy around Staten Island. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Verb

Watch your speed The club had three station wagons and a long blue limousine when Bennett began chauffeuring at age 17. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 Going out on the town is easy with the hotel’s courtesy car service, which chauffeurs guests within a three-mile radius from late afternoon to late evening. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chauffeur

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chauffeur

Noun

The two adults on the bus, a male driver and a female aide, were taken to a local hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries, officials said.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026
Other drivers often cited for such increases include a rise in overall medical care costs and general inflation, and labor shortages.

— Julie Appleby, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of driver

Noun

Luna pitched himself to county voters as a calmly effective operator who has brought down crime while building relationships with local, state and federal leaders that suffered under his predecessor’s tenure.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
If power fails or core temperatures rise, the system shuts down and the liquid fuel salt drains by gravity into passive dump tanks without operator action.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

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