gallant

gallant has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
• a.. Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
• a.. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
• n.. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
• n.. One fond of paying attention to ladies.
• n.. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
• v. t.. To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
• v. t.. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.
• n.. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
• n.. a man who attends or escorts a woman
• a.. unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
• a.. being attentive to women like an ideal knight