Crossword clues for gallant
gallant
- Chivalrous - dashing
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- Female soldier accepting line from escort?
- Romeo’s lass cut top off plant
- Braveheart not heartless following impudence? That's noble
- Brave, heroic
- Dashing fellow who went to the top at sea
- Dashing and debonair young man
- Like a good knight
- Charmingly attentive to ladies
- Chivalrous — dashing
- Stouthearted
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- A man who attends or escorts a woman
- Beau
- Dashing, debonair young man
- Good worker everyone held to be brave and chivalrous
- Chivalrous worker faced with irritation
- Chivalrous Liberal worker supporting young woman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallant \Gal"lant\ (g[a^]l"lant), a. [F. gallant, prop. p. pr. of OF. galer to rejoice, akin to OF. gale amusement, It. gala ornament; of German origin; cf. OHG. geil merry, luxuriant, wanton, G. geil lascivious, akin to AS. g[=a]l wanton, wicked, OS. g[=e]l merry, Goth. gailjan to make to rejoice, or perh. akin to E. weal. See Gala, Galloon.]
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Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
The town is built in a very gallant place.
--Evelyn.Our royal, good and gallant ship.
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Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
--Shak.The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave.
--Waller.Syn: Gallant, Courageous, Brave.
Usage: Courageous is generic, denoting an inward spirit which rises above fear; brave is more outward, marking a spirit which braves or defies danger; gallant rises still higher, denoting bravery on extraordinary occasions in a spirit of adventure. A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict.
Gallant \Gal*lant"\ (?; 277), a. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Gallant \Gal*lant"\ (?; 277), n.
A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood.
--Shak.One fond of paying attention to ladies.
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One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
--Addison.Note: In the first sense it is by some ortho["e]pists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.
Gallant \Gal*lant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gallanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gallanting.]
To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. [Obs.]
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "man of fashion and pleasure," earlier "dissolute man, rake" (early 15c.); from gallant (adj.). As "one who is particularly attentive to women" probably by late 15c.
mid-15c., "showy, finely dressed; gay, merry," from Old French galant "courteous," earlier "amusing, entertaining; lively, bold" (14c.), present participle of galer "rejoice, make merry," which is of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a Latinized verb formed from Frankish *wala- "good, well," from Proto-Germanic *wal- (source also of Old High German wallon "to wander, go on a pilgrimage"), from PIE root *wel- (2) "to wish, will" (see will (v.)), "but the transition of sense offers difficulties that are not fully cleared up" [OED]. Sense of "politely attentive to women" was adopted early 17c. from French. Attempts to distinguish this sense by accent are an 18c. artifice.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 brave, valiant. 2 honorable. 3 grand, noble. 4 (lb en obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. Etymology 2
a. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous. n. 1 (context dated English) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women. 2 One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer. 3 An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. 4 (context nautical English) topgallant v
1 (context obsolete transitive English) To attend or wait on (a lady). 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
WordNet
adj. unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing]
having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: lofty, majestic, proud]
having the qualities of gallantry attributed to an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, knightly]
n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire]
Wikipedia
Gallant may refer to:
- Gallant (singer)
- Gallant (surname)
- Gallant, Alabama, United States
- A gallant, or a man exhibiting courage
- A gallant, a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who holds a gallantry award
- Goofus & Gallant, characters in a Highlights for Children magazine cartoon feature
Gallant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- A. Ronald Gallant (born 1942), American econometrician
- Brian Gallant (born 1982), Canadian Liberal politician
- Cheryl Gallant (born 1960), Canadian Conservative politician
- Christopher Gallant (born 1992), American singer-songwriter
- G. Edgar Gallant (1896–1975), Canadian-born American Roman Catholic priest, pioneering missionary in territorial-era Alaska
- Gary William Gallant (b. 1972), Canadian professional wrestler who wrestles under the ring name Gary Williams (wrestler)
- Gerard Gallant (born 1963), Canadian ice hockey coach and retired player
- Gord Gallant (born 1950), Canadian retired ice hockey player
- Hubert Gallant (born 1955), Canadian retired professional wrestler
- John Gallant (born 1978), Canadian lacrosse player
- Jonathan Gallant (born 1976), Canadian rock bass guitarist.
- Karl Gallant, American congressional aide and lobbyist
- Lennie Gallant (born 1955), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Matt Gallant (born 1964), American television host
- Mavis Gallant (1922–2014), Canadian writer
- Patsy Gallant (born 1948), Canadian pop singer and musical theatre actress
- Peter Gallant (born 1958), Canadian curler
- Shannon Gallant (born 1986), Australian rugby league player
- Thomas Gallant, American oboist
- Thomas Gallant (historian), American historian
Fictional characters:
- Felicia Gallant, a romance novelist in the TV Soap Opera Another World
- Michael Gallant, a medical doctor in the TV Series ER
Christopher Gallant (born 1992), better known by his last name simply as Gallant, is an American singer-songwriter from Columbia, Maryland signed to Mind of a Genius records. He self-released his debut EP, ″Zebra.″ On April 6, 2016, his debut studio album Ology was released worldwide and received critical acclaim for his songwriting and vocal prowess. On May 11, 2016, Gallant performed his single "Weight In Gold" during his national television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to a standing ovation.
Usage examples of "gallant".
Why they should be still advancing in that dense clump we do not now know, nor can we surmise what thoughts were passing through the mind of the gallant and experienced chieftain who walked beside them.
The gallant officers, now realizing for the first time that a girl--and a pretty one--was one of the passengers of the big aeroplane, waved their hats and bowed profoundly.
Now a sleet of bullets hissed through their ranks as they retired, and the gallant Lord Airlie, as modest and brave a soldier as ever drew sword, was struck through the heart.
The charge which resulted in the death of the Earl of Airlie was a gallant performance by all accounts, but did it pay?
But now the trumpets blew a fanfare, and forth rode divers gallant knights, who, spurring rearing steeds, charged amain to gore, to smite and batter each other with right good will while the concourse shouted, caps waved and scarves and ribands fluttered.
Ruefully he continued leafing through the pathetically exuberant pages, studying at the end a full-page portrait, bemedalled and becrossed, of King Leopold of the Belgians, a gallant son of a gallant father, who, it forecast, would never bow to the Germans.
Belle Poule had lain, and how the gallant Berceau had tried to lay, drawing diagrams in oil of sesame on the table-top.
The battle between the American frigate Boston and the French corvette Berceau was one of the most gallant of the struggle, the Berceau fighting until resistance was hopeless.
Gunner Nihala, a gallant native soldier, repeatedly extinguished the burning bhoosa with his cloak at the imminent peril of his life.
Time was, Vanda had been the main base solely for Space Recon and the giant corporate enterprises feeding on it: Biotime, Timeco, Alpha One, those gallant companies of exploration, mining the galaxy for biota, bringing home the green.
Who can realize that the workings of that mighty mind have ceased, that the throbbings of that gallant heart are stilled, that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more, and the magic of that eloquent tongue, which spake as spake no other tongue besides, is hushed hushed for ever!
I imagined that he would be handsome and gallant, but perhaps a little shy, so that I would have to coquette a little to put him at his ease.
I undertook to do my utmost, and I took care to address only a few words to Angela, but I directed all my gallant attentions to Nanette, who treated me as coolly as could be.
When she is won, it will be by some bold and gallant gentleman, and by no mincing squire of dames, no courtly coxcomb, no fop of the Luxembourg, be his experiences of dalliance never so vast.
Everybody applauded this gallant speech, which did not by any means offend the lady to whom it was addressed.