chaperone
a person who accompanies and looks after other people
TRANSLATION
chaperone = die Begleitperson, Aufsichtsperson, Anstandsdame, Betreuerin --- GOOGLE INDEX chaperone: approximately 1,800,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Theatre directors understandably think twice about hiring 14- or 15-year-olds, who still require a performance licence from their local council, plus a chaperone at all rehearsals and performances, just as if they were five, eight or 11.
(The Guardian)
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A group of U.S. students touring China are gaining an experience they had not expected - a second round in quarantine following a positive test of the H1N1 flu virus, a chaperone for the group said.
(CNN)
(The Guardian)
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A group of U.S. students touring China are gaining an experience they had not expected - a second round in quarantine following a positive test of the H1N1 flu virus, a chaperone for the group said.
(CNN)
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chaperone
noun and verb
- a person who accompanies and looks after another person or group of people
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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The chaperone at a high-school dance has little relationship to what was first meant by the English word chaperone, "a hood for a hawk." And it has little to do with what the word later meant, "a woman who protects a young single woman."
The Middle English sense of "hood for a hawk" reflects the original meaning of the Old French word chaperone, "hood, headgear." Chaperone came to have the sense "protector" from French the verb chaperonener, meaning "to cover with a hood."
Under the influence of the verb sense, the French noun chaperone came to mean "escort," a meaning that was borrowed into English in the early 18th century. In its earlier use, chaperone referred to a person, usually an older woman, who accompanied a young unmarried woman in public to protect her. The verb chaperone, "to be a chaperone," was first recorded in Jane Austen's 1811 novel "Sense and Sensibility."
A new, modern use of chaperone is in the field of molecular biology. Chaperones are proteins that help macromolecular cells develop into three-dimensional structures, but are not active when the structures perform their normal biological functions. Like the human chaperone, they are just there to help.
(adapted from the American Heritage Dictionary and Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
attendant, companion, escort, guard, guide, monitor, overseer, protector, usher
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Our guests will need a chaperone to show them around the site."
noun and verb
- a person who accompanies and looks after another person or group of people
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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The chaperone at a high-school dance has little relationship to what was first meant by the English word chaperone, "a hood for a hawk." And it has little to do with what the word later meant, "a woman who protects a young single woman."
The Middle English sense of "hood for a hawk" reflects the original meaning of the Old French word chaperone, "hood, headgear." Chaperone came to have the sense "protector" from French the verb chaperonener, meaning "to cover with a hood."
Under the influence of the verb sense, the French noun chaperone came to mean "escort," a meaning that was borrowed into English in the early 18th century. In its earlier use, chaperone referred to a person, usually an older woman, who accompanied a young unmarried woman in public to protect her. The verb chaperone, "to be a chaperone," was first recorded in Jane Austen's 1811 novel "Sense and Sensibility."
A new, modern use of chaperone is in the field of molecular biology. Chaperones are proteins that help macromolecular cells develop into three-dimensional structures, but are not active when the structures perform their normal biological functions. Like the human chaperone, they are just there to help.
(adapted from the American Heritage Dictionary and Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
attendant, companion, escort, guard, guide, monitor, overseer, protector, usher
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Our guests will need a chaperone to show them around the site."
