chaperone
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
chaperone (plural chaperones)
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- (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.
- French: chaperon
- German: Anstandsdame, Anstandswauwau
- Portuguese: aia, aio
- Russian: дуэ́нья
- Spanish: dueña, carabina, chaperón
chaperone (chaperones, present participle chaperoning; past and past participle chaperoned)
- To act as a chaperone.
- 2006, The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
- 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
- 2006, The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
- French: chaperonner
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