Meaning

3 senses
  1. An 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

    дуэ́ньяduénʹja

    one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

  2. 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

  3. (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 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary don't need a chaperone.

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  2. Do Tom and Mary need a chaperone?

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  3. There were three chaperones at the school dance.

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  4. I'll be your chaperone.

    ruЯ буду твоим наставником.

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  5. I'd make a good chaperone.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour:
protein that aids in folding other proteins:

Origin

See chaperon.

See chaperon.

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