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sporting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sp??t??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sp??t??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?spo(?)?t??/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?spo?t??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??
Verb
sporting
- present participle of sport
Adjective
sporting (comparative more sporting, superlative most sporting)
- (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
- (not comparable, obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
Derived terms
- sporting goods
- sporting house
- sporting chance
Translations
Noun
sporting (plural sportings)
- The act of taking part in a sport.
Anagrams
- ringpost, ringspot
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cavalier
English
Etymology
[1589] Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caball?rius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) K?b 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic ?????? (kobyla) 'mare'.
Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæv??l???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Hyphenation: cav?a?lier
Adjective
cavalier (comparative more cavalier, superlative most cavalier)
- Not caring enough about something important.
- 2012, Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge, Voices of the Women's Health Movement (volume 1)
- Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]
- 2012, Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge, Voices of the Women's Health Movement (volume 1)
- High-spirited.
- Supercilious.
- Synonyms: haughty, disdainful, curt, brusque
- (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
Translations
Noun
cavalier (plural cavaliers)
- (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
- (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
- Antonym: Roundhead
- (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
- (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- Antonym: roundhead
- (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
Translations
Verb
cavalier (third-person singular simple present cavaliers, present participle cavaliering, simple past and past participle cavaliered)
- (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
- 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate (page 427)
- His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.
- 1916, Good Housekeeping (volume 64, page 113)
- "I thought," Graeme burred at him, transfixing him with shrewd eyes, "that you were cavaliering the Italian girl, Beatrice Cenci or Vittoria Colonna or whatever her name is?"
- 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate (page 427)
References
Anagrams
- variceal
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caball?rius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.va.lje/
Noun
cavalier m (plural cavaliers, feminine cavalière)
- horseman, particularly:
- 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:
- ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch... Exceptions to this rule are generally words incorporated into classical French (i.e., the descendant of the old dialect of the Isle de France) from other dialects, as those of Normandy or Picardy, or are introduced from the Italian, as cavalier, &c.
- knight
- cavalier: an early modern cavalry officer
- (horse-)rider
- 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:
- (chess, m) knight
- (card games, m) knight (in tarot)
- (m) U-nail, fence staple, construction staple
- (m) cable clip
- (danse, m) (male) partner
- (m) (male) date, (male) companion for social activities
Derived terms
- faire cavalier seul
Adjective
cavalier (feminine singular cavalière, masculine plural cavaliers, feminine plural cavalières)
- equestrian
- cavalier (all senses)
See also
Further reading
- “cavalier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- calvaire
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