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CAVALIER
cavalier, high-handed
(adjective) given to haughty disregard of others
Cavalier, Royalist
(noun) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
cavalier, chevalier
(noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Named after Charles Cavileer, an early settler.
Proper noun
Cavalier
A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
Anagrams
• variceal
Etymology
Adjective
cavalier (comparative more cavalier, superlative most cavalier)
Not caring enough about something important.
High-spirited.
Supercilious.
Synonyms: haughty, disdainful, curt, brusque
(historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
Noun
cavalier (plural cavaliers)
(historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
(historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly
(historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
Antonym: Roundhead
(slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
Antonym: roundhead
(architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc, and overlooking the surrounding area.
Verb
cavalier (third-person singular simple present cavaliers, present participle cavaliering, simple past and past participle cavaliered)
(transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
Anagrams
• variceal
Source: Wiktionary
Cav`a*lier", n. Etym: [F. cavalier, It. cavaliere, LL. caballarius, fr. L. caballus. See Cavalcade, and cf. Cavallier, Caballine.]
1. A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
2. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
3. One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.
4. (Fort.)
Definition: A work of more that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
Cav`a*lier", a.
Definition: Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.
2. High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling.
3. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
4. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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