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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)
- brave, valiant.
- 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.
- grand, noble.
- (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)
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Translations
Noun
gallant (plural gallants)
- (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 […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 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, […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- (nautical) topgallant
Translations
Verb
gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
- (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
- (literary) third-person plural present/future of gallu
Mutation
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proud
English
Alternative forms
- prowd (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English pr?d, pr?t (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English pr?tung (“pride”); pr?de, pr?te (“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin pr?de (“useful”), derived from Latin pr?desse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives pr?te, pr?tian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Adjective
proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
- (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
- (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Antonyms
- ashamed
Derived terms
Related terms
- pride
- prude
Translations
Anagrams
- pour'd, pudor
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pr?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?prou?t]
- Rhymes: -out
Noun
proud m
- current
- (electricity) current
Declension
Derived terms
- proud?ní
- proudící
- proudit
- po proudu
- proti proudu
- protiproud
Further reading
- proud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- proud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
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