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Escorted vs Chaperoned - What's the difference?

escorted | chaperoned |

As verbs the difference between escorted and chaperoned

is that escorted is past tense of escort while chaperoned is past tense of chaperone.

As an adjective escorted

is with or having an escort.

escorted

English

Adjective

(-)
  • With or having an escort.

    • Derived terms

    * unescorted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (escort)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    chaperoned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chaperone)

    • chaperone

    English

    (wikipedia chaperone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  • (biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.

    • Derived terms

    * chaperoneship * cochaperone

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to act as a chaperone
  • * 2006 , The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
    • 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'

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