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valet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?væle?/, /?væl?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?væle?/, /væ?le?/, /?væl?t/
- Rhymes: -æl?t, -æle?, -e?
Noun
valet (plural valets)
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
- Synonym: parking attendant
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Synonyms
- (personal attendant): butler (proscribed), gentleman's gentleman
Translations
References
- “valet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “valet” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Verb
valet (third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)
- (transitive) To serve (someone) as a valet.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163,[1]
- You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
- 1926, Neville Shute, Marazan, London: Cassell, Chapter Seven,[2]
- […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163,[1]
- (transitive, chiefly Britain, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
- 2017, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road,” The Irish Sun, 7 March, 2017,[3]
- He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
- “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
- 2017, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road,” The Irish Sun, 7 March, 2017,[3]
- (transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
- 2012, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!” The Huffington Post, 30 May, 2012,[4]
- I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”
- 2017, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Emma Ludbrook and Tom Windish: Their First Date Was a Big Production,” The New York Times, 11 February, 2017,[5]
- “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”
- 2012, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!” The Huffington Post, 30 May, 2012,[4]
Further reading
- Valet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Valet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Estonian
Noun
valet
- partitive singular of vale
French
Etymology
From Old French vaslet, from *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.l?/
Noun
valet m (plural valets)
- (historical) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
- (historical) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
- a male servant, a footman
- a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
- (card games) jack
Descendants
- Turkish: vale
See also
Further reading
- “valet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- levât
Latin
Verb
valet
- third-person singular present active indicative of vale?
Middle French
Etymology
Old French vaslet.
Noun
valet m (plural valets)
- manservant; (male) attendant
Descendants
- French: valet
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French valet.
Noun
valet m (plural valets)
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. - (Jersey, card games) jack
Derived terms
- valet d'fèrme (“farmhand”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
valet n
- singular definite of val
Portuguese
Etymology
From French valet
Noun
valet m, f (plural valets)
- valet (a person employed to park cars)
Romanian
Etymology
From French valet.
Noun
valet m (plural vale?i)
- valet
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French valet.
Noun
valet m (plural valets)
- (card games) jack, knave
Swedish
Noun
valet
- definite singular of val
Anagrams
- levat, velat
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parking
English
Etymology
park +? -ing
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??k??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??k??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)k??
- Hyphenation: park?ing
Verb
parking
- present participle of park
- Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)
- His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)
- They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)
- Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)
Noun
parking (usually uncountable, plural parkings)
- The action of the verb to park.
- Parking in central London can be very difficult.
- 1948, Report of the Charlotte Parking Survey: Downtown Business District
- Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]
- Space in which to park a car or other vehicle.
- It can be difficult to find parking in central London.
Usage notes
- Often used attributively, as an adjective.
Hyponyms
- angle parking
- parallel parking
Derived terms
Translations
Cebuano
Etymology
From English parking, from park (“to park”), from Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: par?king
Verb
parking
- to park; to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:parking.
Derived terms
- parkinganan
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English parking or from French parking.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?r.k??/
- Hyphenation: par?king
Noun
parking f (plural parkings)
- (Belgium) car park, parking lot
- Synonyms: parkeerplaats, parkeerterrein
Derived terms
- stadsparking
French
Etymology
From English parking.
Pronunciation
- (France) IPA(key): /pa?ki?(?)/
Noun
parking m (plural parkings)
- car park, parking lot
- Synonym: stationnement
Further reading
- “parking” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From English parking.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??ki?/
Noun
parking
- area where cars or other vehicles are parked; car park
- Synonym: stasionnman
Polish
Etymology
From English parking.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?par.k?ink/ [?park???k]
Noun
parking m inan
- car park
Declension
Derived terms
- (verbs) parkowa?, zaparkowa?
- (noun) parkingowy
- (adjective) parkingowy
Further reading
- parking in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- parking in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
From English parking.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?kin/, [?pa?.k?n]
Noun
parking m (plural parkings)
- car park (UK), parking lot (North America) (an area where cars may be parked)
- Synonyms: aparcamiento, estacionamiento
- parking garage
Further reading
- “parking” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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