Chauffeur vs Limousine - What's the difference?
chauffeur | limousine |
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
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To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
To transport (someone) in a motor car.
An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
An automobile with such a body.
A luxury sedan/saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
As nouns the difference between chauffeur and limousine
is that chauffeur is a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine) while limousine is an automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.As a verb chauffeur
is to be, or act as, a chauffeur driver of a motor car.As a proper noun Limousine is
a region of France.chauffeur
English
(wikipedia chauffeur)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur , since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}