different between valet vs wallet

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)

1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
3. (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.
4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
5. (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.

   Synonym: parking attendant

6. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
7. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
8. 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)

1. (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.

2. (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.”

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.”

Further reading

• Valet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Valet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Estonian

Noun

valet

1. 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)

1. (historical) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
2. (historical) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
3. a male servant, a footman
4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
5. (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

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vale?

Middle French

Etymology

Old French vaslet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. manservant; (male) attendant

Descendants

• French: valet

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (Jersey, card games) jack

Derived terms

• valet d'fèrme (“farmhand”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

valet n

1. singular definite of val

Portuguese

Etymology

From French valet

Noun

valet m, f (plural valets)

1. valet (a person employed to park cars)

Romanian

Etymology

From French valet.

Noun

valet m (plural vale?i)

1. valet

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. (card games) jack, knave

Swedish

Noun

valet

1. definite singular of val

Anagrams

• levat, velat

English

Etymology

From Middle English walet (“bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“roll; bag; knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?l?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?l?t/, /?w?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

wallet (plural wallets)

1. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.

   The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.

2. (by extension, informal) A person's bank account or assets.

   It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.

3. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.

   I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.

4. (archaic) A bag or pouch.

   He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.

5. (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

   He fell down and landed on his wallet.

Synonyms

• billfold
• pocketbook

Translations

See also

• purse
• scrip

Anagrams

• Atwell, Etwall, all wet

German

Verb

wallet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of wallen