Driver vs Chauffeur - What's the difference?
driver | chauffeur |
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
A person who drives some other vehicle.
(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=3 (firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).
To transport (someone) in a motor car.
Chauffeur is a hypernym of driver.
As nouns the difference between driver and chauffeur
is that driver is one who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive while chauffeur is a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).As a proper noun Driver
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb chauffeur is
to be, or act as, a chauffeur driver of a motor car.driver
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* back-seat driver * driver-ant * driver-boom * driverless * driverside * driver's license * driver transistor * driver tube * driver valve * driver-yard * in the driver's seat * pile-driver * screwdriverSee also
* chauffeur * conductor * pilot * rider ----chauffeur
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(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.}}