The meaning of CHAPERONE is a person (such as a matron) who for propriety accompanies one or more young unmarried women in public or in mixed company. How to use chaperone in a sentence.

CHAPERONE definition: 1. (especially in the past) an older person, especially a woman, who stays with and takes care of a…. Learn more.

A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public; usually she was an older married woman, and most commonly the girl's own mother.

CHAPERONE meaning: 1. (especially in the past) an older person, especially a woman, who stays with and takes care of a…. Learn more.

Chaperone or Chaperon may refer to: Chaperone (social) or chaperon, a person who accompanies or supervises young people on social occasions; Chaperone (clinical), a person who acts as a witness during a medical examination or procedure; Chaperon (headgear), a form of hood or hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

These days, chaperone is most often used to describe an adult who supervises a group of kids or teenagers. The Old English meaning was "protective hood or head covering," and today the word chaperone retains that "protective" quality.

CHAPERONE definition: chaperon | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

CHAPERONE meaning: 1 : someone (such as a teacher or parent) who goes with children on a trip or to a school dance to make sure that the children behave properly; 2 : a person in the past who went with a young unmarried woman to social events in order to make sure that the woman behaved properly

CHAPERONE definition: 1. an older person who goes somewhere with a younger person in order to make sure they behave well…. Learn more.

Any of a diverse group of proteins that assist macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, to assemble and fold into the proper three-dimensional structure as they are being synthesized. Also called molecular chaperone.