Definitions for cavaliers

cavaliers cav·a·lier

Spelling: [kav-uh-leer, kav-uh-leer]
IPA: /ˌkæv əˈlɪər, ˈkæv əˌlɪər/

Cavaliers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in cavaliers (aaceilrsv).

Definitions for cavaliers

noun

  1. a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  2. one having the spirit or bearing of a knight; a courtly gentleman; gallant.
  3. a man escorting a woman or acting as her partner in dancing.
  4. (initial capital letter) an adherent of Charles I of England in his contest with Parliament.

adjective

  1. haughty, disdainful, or supercilious:
  2. offhand or unceremonious:
  3. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Cavaliers.
  4. (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Cavalier poets or their work.

verb (used without object)

  1. to play the cavalier.
  2. to be haughty or domineering.

Origin of cavaliers

1590-1600; Middle French: horseman, knight Old Italian cavaliere Old Provençal Late Latin caballārius man on horseback, equivalent to Latin caball(us) horse (cf.

Examples for cavaliers

At all events, I have not danced four dances in one evening with one cavalier.

“Some reporters may take a cavalier attitude about being a martyr for a cause,” the friend added.

One of our two surviving dogs (since the death of our beloved yellow Lab Cobber) is a cavalier.

"There is a cost to such a cavalier attitude," said Aparício, the former Bolivian ambassador to Washington.

“Wrong station, mate, you want the next,” you tell a strapping boy in a cavalier cloak.

Treat this cavalier with all the respect and worship due to his birth and merits.

And why should her father mistrust this splendid-looking Spanish cavalier?

History has a cavalier way of recording the benefits of conquest.

No banker who truly understands risk should be so cavalier about it.

"The rest of the planking's sure to be gone by this time," continues the cavalier.

Word Value for cavaliers
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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