English Explanatory Dictionary

chaperone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. 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. An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
verb
  1. To act as a chaperone.
  2. To work as a chaperone.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vanderdecken-chaperone.wav /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

Word forms

chaperone chaperones chaperoning chaperoned

Etymology

See chaperon.

Derived words

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