gallant
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is gallant a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of gallant?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.Examples: "This town is built in a very gallant place."; "our royal, good and gallant ship"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.Examples: "PROSPERO: […] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd / with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person […]"Synonyms: blade, blood, masher, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buckdated
2. (nautical) A topgallant.
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).Examples: "to gallant ladies to the play"; "During this period, we were the lions of the neighbourhood; and, no doubt, strangers from the distant villages were taken to see the "Karhowrees" (white men), in the same way that countrymen, in a city, are gallanted to the Zoological Gardens."obsoletetransitive
2. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.Examples: "to gallant a fan"obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive) To conduct, escort, convey.Examples: "... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary