chaperone
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their…An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
» Tom and Mary don't need a chaperone.
Meaning
3 sensesAn older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
Anstandsdame, Anstandswauwau, Aufsichtsperson
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one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
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.
Chaperon
(UK)An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
Examples
14 sentencesTom and Mary don't need a chaperone.
Do Tom and Mary need a chaperone?
There were three chaperones at the school dance.
I'll be your chaperone.
ruЯ буду твоим наставником.
I'd make a good chaperone.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
See chaperon.See chaperon.
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Forms
plural: chaperones| Singular | chaperone |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people:chaperon