Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for chaperone

chaperone

noun as in attendant

verb as in attend

Advertisement

Discover More

Example Sentences

From her home in Denmark, Popal had warned players to burn their jerseys and not leave their homes — girls and women are forbidden from playing sports under the Taliban — and urged them not to leave their homes without a male chaperone.

Women were systematically victimized under the Taliban, dependent on male chaperones to leave their homes and unable to access education.

From Time

By Thursday afternoon, the tally of positive cases included 47 staff members and 29 campers or chaperones who were not working on campus, Rybka said.

The two were inseparable, with Culotta acting as a chaperone, staffer, and trusted confidante to Spears.

The high school itself was not hosting or helping, but individual teachers had volunteered as chaperones.

Later, after marrying a farmer, she is told that she cannot sell her vegetables at the market in Chicago without a male chaperone.

Posing for a picture with 49 bright-eyed students from India, mathematics teacher (turned chaperone) Mr. Uniyal looks stressed.

He hosted a poetry contest and a talent show, acted as a chaperone for dances, and attended football games.

She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away.

She was accompanied to the interview with her new Scientology “chaperone.”

Her smile had in it some suggestion of the reserve of the chaperone.

And this is the room of all others to get in order, as I fancy Miss Cox, our chaperone, will occupy it.

"He will be along this evening with Miss Cox, our chaperone, and we want to get everything in order before he comes," said Dum.

"It would be a pretty piece of business for me to come down here as a chaperone and then be a baby," she said.

I have saved up the most important to the last:—our chaperone, Miss Cox, has gone and got herself engaged!

Synonym of the day

Which one is a synonym for smile?Get the answer

Start each day with the Synonym of the Day in your inbox!

By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.

On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chaperone, such as: matron, companion, convoy, duenna, escort, and governess.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement