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

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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

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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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