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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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steward
English
Etymology
From Middle English steward, from Old English st?weard, st??weard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from st?? (“house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty +? ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?stju?.?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?stu?d/
- Hyphenation: stew?ard
Noun
steward (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A flight attendant, especially male.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Erskine to this entry?)
- (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
Usage notes
With regard to airlines, steward is usually distinguished from the more common and exclusively feminine stewardess in colloquial speech, while the gender-neutral flight attendant is usually preferred to both in formal contexts. For the sake of brevity, steward is sometimes treated as a gender-neutral term itself and applied to both male and female flight attendants.
Synonyms
- (medieval overseer): bailiff, provost
- (member of a flight crew): air steward, airline steward; see also flight attendant
- (union member): shop steward
- (person in charge of buildings, grounds, etc.): caretaker, custodian, keeper; groundskeeper (of estates)
Hyponyms
- (member of a flight crew) See flight attendant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
steward (third-person singular simple present stewards, present participle stewarding, simple past and past participle stewarded)
- To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
References
Anagrams
- drawest, strawed, swarted, wardest
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English steward.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sty.??rt/, /?sti.??rt/
- Hyphenation: ste?ward
Noun
steward m (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)
- (aviation) steward, male flight attendant
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English steward.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stju.wa?d/, /sti.wa?d/, /sti.wa?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /stu.wœ?d/
Noun
steward m (plural stewards)
- steward
Further reading
- “steward” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Etymology
From English steward.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?stju.art/
Noun
steward m pers (feminine stewardesa)
- steward, flight attendant
Declension
Further reading
- steward in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- steward in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English steward.
Noun
steward m (plural stewarzi)
- steward
Declension
Related terms
- stewardes?
References
- steward in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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