Usually means: Guide ensuring proper behavior, safety.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperon: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaperon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chaperon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chaperon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chaperon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chaperon: Wordnik
  7. chaperon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. chaperon (chaperone): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. chaperon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Chaperon, chaperon: Dictionary.com
  11. chaperon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. chaperon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Chaperon (headgear), Chaperon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Chaperon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. chaperon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. chaperon: Rhymezone
  17. Chaperon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chaperon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. chaperon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. chaperon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Chaperon: The Word Detective
  22. chaperon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. chaperon: Wordnik
  24. chaperon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. chaperon: Wiktionary
  26. Chaperon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaperon: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. chaperon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. chaperon: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaperon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See chaperonage as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
noun:  A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
noun:  A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
verb:  To accompany; to escort.
verb:  To mother.

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