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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

Mutation

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brave

English

Etymology

From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: br?v, IPA(key): /b?e?v/
  • Rhymes: -e?v

Adjective

brave (comparative braver, superlative bravest)

  1. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
    Synonyms: bold, daring, doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart
    Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, mean, weak
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:
      Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
    • 1987, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:
      [] he has been so brave, giving it all a dignity.
  2. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
      Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
    • February 18, 1666, Samuel Pepys,, diary entry
      It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
  3. Making a fine show or display.
    • 1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque
      For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
    • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day
      Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
    • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, [] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Synonyms

  • (courageous): See also Thesaurus:brave

Translations

Noun

brave (plural braves)

  1. (dated) A Native American warrior.
  2. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence
      Hot braves like thee may fight.
  3. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

Translations

Verb

brave (third-person singular simple present braves, present participle braving, simple past and past participle braved)

  1. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
      For Cassius is aweary of the world;
      Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
      Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
      Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
      To cast into my teeth.
    • 1670, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards:
      The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear,
      These I can brave, but those I cannot bear []
    • 1773, A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Number 53, December 2
      [] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
    After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
    • ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):
      Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave
      not me. I will neither be faced nor braved.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References


Anagrams

  • Baver

Esperanto

Etymology 1

brava +? -e

Adverb

brave

  1. bravely, valiantly

Etymology 2

From Italian bravo.

Interjection

brave

  1. bravo

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian bravo. Compare Spanish, Portuguese bravo. Doublet of bravo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?av/

Adjective

brave (plural braves)

  1. brave
  2. honest

Synonyms

  • courageux
  • bon
  • honnête
  • preux

Noun

brave m (plural braves)

  1. hero

Related terms

Further reading

  • “brave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • baver

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a?v?

Adjective

brave

  1. inflection of brav:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

brave

  1. feminine plural of bravo

Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin *bravus.

Adjective

brave m or f

  1. brave

Derived terms

  • bravement (bravely)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brave

  1. definite singular/plural of brav

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

brave

  1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of br?ti (to say)

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