chaperone

English

Etymology

See chaperon.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

Noun

chaperone (plural chaperones)

1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
2. (biochemistry) 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.
3. (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

Derived terms

• autochaperone
• bichaperone
• chaperome
• chaperoneless
• chaperoneship
• chaperonic
• chaperonin
• chaperonopathy
• cochaperone
• heterochaperone
• metallochaperone
• molybdochaperone
• multichaperone
• pharmacochaperone
• superchaperone

 

Translations

older person who accompanies younger people to ensure good behaviour

Chinese: Mandarin: 監護人 / 监护人 (zh) (jiānhùrén) Czech: garde (cs) n, gardedáma f Danish: anstandsdame c Esperanto: eskortanto m, eskortantino f Finnish: esiliina (fi), kaitsija (fi) French: chaperon (fr) m German: Anstandsdame (de) f (female), Anstandswauwau (de) m (colloquial); Aufsichtsperson (de) f, Begleitperson f, Begleitung (de) f, Aufpasser (de) m Greek: συνοδός (el) f (synodós) Irish: bean choimhdeachta f (lady’s maid) Japanese: 保護者 (ja) (ほごしゃ, hogosha) Norwegian: Bokmål: anstand m Polish: przyzwoitka (pl) f Portuguese: guardião (pt) m, guardiã f, mentor (pt) m, mentora (pt) f, aia (pt) f, aio (pt) m Russian: дуэ́нья (ru) f (duénʹja) (dated) Spanish: dueña (es) f, carabina (es) f, chaperón m Swedish: chaperon (sv), förkläde (sv) Urdu: مَحْرَم m (maḥram) (loosely - one who cannot be married to)

protein that aids in folding other proteins

Chinese: Mandarin: 分子伴侣 (fēnzǐ bànlǚ, literally “molecular companion”) Finnish: kaitsijaproteiini, saperoni German: Chaperon m Hungarian: dajkafehérje sg Japanese: シャペロン (shaperon) Polish: białko opiekuńcze n Turkish: şaperon

Verb

chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)

1. To act as a chaperone.
   • 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 183:

     They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.

   • 2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27:

     'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'

   • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49:

     TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.

2. (UK, business) To work as a chaperone.

Translations

act as a chaperone

Chinese: Mandarin: 陪伴 (zh) (péibàn)，监护 (zh) (jiānhù)，起到分子伴侣作用 (qǐdào fēnzǐbànlǚ zuòyòng)(biochemistry) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: olla esiliinana (jollekin) French: chaperonner (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: als Beschützerin begleiten, Anstandsdame spielen, beaufsichtigen (de), begleiten (de), eskortieren (de) Greek: συνοδεύω (el) (synodévo) Italian: sciaperonare Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: acompanhar (pt), assistir (pt) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Chaperone (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• canephore