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audacious

English

Etymology

From Latin audacia (boldness), from audax (bold), from aude? (I am bold, I dare)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA(key): /???de???s/
  • (US) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA(key): /??de???s/
  • Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)

  1. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
      That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
  2. Impudent, insolent.

Synonyms

  • (willing to take bold risks): bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

Antonyms

  • (willing to take bold risks): shy, cautious, prudent

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • audacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • audacious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • audacious at OneLook Dictionary Search

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gallant

English

Alternative forms

  • gallaunt (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (courteous; dashing; brave), present participle of galer (to rejoice; make merry), from gale (pomp; show; festivity; mirth); either from Frankish *wala- (good, well), from Proto-Germanic *wal-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (to choose, wish); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (merry; excited; luxurious), related to Dutch geil (horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous), German geil (randy; horny; lecherous; wicked), Old English g?l (wanton; wicked; bad).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??æl?nt/
  • Rhymes: -æl?nt

Adjective

gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)

  1. brave, valiant.
  2. honorable.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle [] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  3. grand, noble.
  4. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
    • This town [is built in a very gallant place.
Related terms
  • gallantly
  • gallantry
Translations

Etymology 2

From French

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???lænt/, /??æl?nt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /???l?nt/, /??æl?nt/
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Adjective

gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)

  1. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Translations

Noun

gallant (plural gallants)

  1. (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
      PROSPERO: [] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd / with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person []
  2. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
      [] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
    • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 140–143
      The ignominy of that whisper’d tale / About a midnight gallant, seen to climb / A window to her chamber neighbour’d near, / I will from her turn off, []
  3. (nautical) topgallant
Translations

Verb

gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

References

  • gallant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • gallan (colloquial)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??a?ant/

Verb

gallant

  1. (literary) third-person plural present/future of gallu

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