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cavalier

adj
/ˌkævəˈlɪɚ//ˈkæ.vəˌlir/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Late Latin -āriusnom. Late Latin -arius Late Latin caballāriusder. Old Occitan cavalierbor. Old Italian cavalierebor. Middle French cavalierbor. English cavalier First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.

  1. derived from caballus
  2. derived from caballārius
  3. derived from cavalier
  4. derived from cavaliere
  5. borrowed from cavalier

Definitions

  1. Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.

    • But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion.
    • Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]
    • For another example, see Palumbo, Rudd, and Whelan (2006), who found that several empirical consumption papers from the 1980s and 1990s took a cavalier approach to deflation and measurement that unfortunately affected their results.

  2. High-spirited.

  3. Supercilious.

  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. Free and easy

      Free and easy; unconcerned with formalities

    2. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).

    3. A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had…

      A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.

    4. A gallant

      A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.

    5. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly

    6. A gentleman of the class of such officers

    7. Someone with an uncircumcised penis.

      • The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.

    8. A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.

    9. Of a man

      Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).

      • His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.
      • "I thought," Graeme burred at him, transfixing him with shrewd eyes, "that you were cavaliering the Italian girl, Beatrice Cenci or Vittoria Colonna or whatever her name is?"

    10. A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.

    11. A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

    12. A Chevrolet Cavalier.

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Derived

beaglier, Cavachon, cavalierish, cavalierism, cavalierly, cavalierness, cavaliership, Cavoodle, klavalier, uncavalier

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA