Synonyms for cavaliers
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kav-uh-leer, kav-uh-leer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌkæv əˈlɪər, ˈkæv əˌlɪər |
Top 10 synonyms for cavaliers Other synonyms for the word cavaliers
- alarm clock
- banneret
- beloved
- bird dog
- caballero
- cadet
- cavalier
- champion
- chaperon
- chevalier
- companion
- company
- consort
- convoyer
- cortege
- courter
- date
- don
- escort
- fellow
- fiancé
- flame
- follower
- friend
- gallant
- gentleman
- gentleman caller
- gentleman friend
- girlfriend
- guard
- guide
- honey
- horseman
- inamorato
- knight
- knight errant
- lord
- love
- man
- man of his word
- man of honor
- man-at-arms
- noble
- paladin
- partisan
- partner
- polished man
- protagonist
- protector
- refined man
- retinue
- safeguard
- sir
- squire
- steady
- supplicant
- swain
- sweetheart
- templar
- train
- true love
- warden
- woman
- wooer
Définition of cavaliers
Origin :- 1580s, from Italian cavalliere "mounted soldier, knight; gentleman serving as a lady's escort," from Late Latin caballarius "horseman," from Vulgar Latin caballus, the common Vulgar Latin word for "horse" (and source of Italian cavallo, French cheval, Spanish caballo, Irish capall, Welsh ceffyl), displacing Latin equus (see equine).
- Sense advanced in 17c. to "knight," then "courtly gentleman" (but also, pejoratively, "swaggerer"), which led to the adjectival senses, especially "disdainful" (1650s). Meaning "Royalist adherent of Charles I" is from 1641. Meaning "one who devotes himself solely to attendance on a lady" is from 1817, roughly translating Italian cavaliere-servente. In classical Latin caballus was "work horse, pack horse," sometimes, disdainfully, "hack, nag." "Not a native Lat. word (as the second -a- would show), though the source of the borrowing is uncertain" [Tucker]. Perhaps from some Balkan or Anatolian language, and meaning, originally, "gelding." The same source is thought to have yielded Old Church Slavonic kobyla.
- As in suitor : noun person who desires another
- As in beau : noun boyfriend
- As in gentleman : noun a courteous and honorable man
- As in caballero : noun spanish knight
- As in chevalier : noun gentleman
- As in knight : noun noble person
- As in swain : noun beau
- As in escort : noun protection; accompaniment
- It is well that cavaliers of fortune should show that an engagement is with them—how do ye say it?
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- We arrived at the hollow; the ladies left their cavaliers, but she did not let go my arm.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- Her mother was a long way off, and not one of the cavaliers of her acquaintance was near.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- Attahuallapa was informed of the approach of the Spanish cavaliers.
- Extract from : « Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi » by John S. C. Abbott
- Thou shalt be the proudest and most envied of cavaliers; thou shalt be my lover!
- Extract from : « Clarimonde » by Thophile Gautier
- Well, which of you is inclined to follow the German cavaliers' example?
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- The two cavaliers and their escort found the Inca in the midst of his camp.
- Extract from : « South American Fights and Fighters » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
- As to the few other cavaliers, very willing were they to have it so.
- Extract from : « Bonaventure » by George Washington Cable
- The sons of the Cavaliers spring to the side of the sons of the Pilgrims.
- Extract from : « America First » by Various
- The cavaliers again set the example by plunging into the water.
- Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 » by Charles H. Sylvester
Antonyms for cavaliers
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