Definitions for gallant

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gallant gal·lant

Spelling: [adjective gal-uh nt for 1, 3, 4; g Gallant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in gallant (aagllnt).

Definitions for gallant

noun

1. a brave, noble-minded, or chivalrous man.
2. a man exceptionally attentive to women.
3. a stylish and dashing man.
4. a suitor or lover.
5. a paramour.
6. Mavis, 1922–2014, Canadian short-story writer.

adjective

1. brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous:
2. exceptionally polite and attentive to women; courtly.
3. stately; grand:
4. showy, colorful, or stylish, as in dress; magnificent.
5. amorous; amatory.

verb (used with object)

1. to court or act as a lover of (a woman).
2. to escort (a woman).

verb (used without object)

1. to attend or pay court as a gallant.

Origin of gallant

1350-1400; Middle English gala(u)nt Old French galant, present participle of galer to amuse oneself, make merry Gallo-Romance *walāre, derivative of Frankish *wala good, happy; see Examples for gallant

gallant men of our own army will be overwhelmed unless we get up in time!

At this period the gallant O'Neill was in great uncertainty.

He just made the gallant, grand decision to free up his day to spend more time with Jennifer Aniston.

But they are gallant men and while life lasts they will not be denied.

"My God, My Glock, and my gallant" Above hardpan deserts, red dawns chased away Orion, the Hunter, day after night.

I plan to see if he can pick me up in a gallant—for good luck.

Mortimer's gallant act had roused the Irishman's admiration.

He got married (“one wife enough”), had kids, left his job, survived a few more attacks, went gray, and no longer drove a gallant.

One “gallant old doctor” says he finds it unsuitable she is in a mortuary.

And then come the fighting-men—a gallant, ragged, indomitable band.