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chaperone

UK/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/US/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,997 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: chaperones

A chaperone is somebody who accompanies a young person to keep them proper. Act as chaperone, without a chaperone, the chaperone waited.

The social institution is gone but the word is alive in two places: a school trip needs adults called chaperones, and a doctor offers one for an intimate examination, which is a protection for both people in the room.

Definitions of chaperone

  1. 1nounchaperoneSomebody who accompanies a young person to keep them proper.C1

    “In the past, a young woman could not go to a dance without a chaperone.”

chaperone is a person.

Where it comes from

French chaperon meant a hood, from chape, a cloak. The person was imagined as a covering or protection.

See chaperon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

chaperone in the wild

  • The specific mode of function of chaperones differs based on their target proteins and location.

    Chaperone (protein)

  • Various approaches have been applied to study the structure, dynamics and functioning of chaperones.

    Chaperone (protein)

  • By extension, the word chaperone is used in clinical contexts.

    Chaperone (social)

  • Co-chaperones are proteins that assist chaperones in protein folding and other functions.

    Co-chaperone

  • Co-chaperones assist heat shock proteins in the protein folding process.

    Co-chaperone

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.