gallant

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɡəˈlænt/|/ˈɡælənt/    美 /ɡəˈlɑnt/|/ˈɡælənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women. dated
    — 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 […]
  2. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
    — […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
  3. A topgallant.
动词 v.
  1. To attend or wait on (a lady). obsolete,transitive
    — to gallant ladies to the play
  2. To handle with grace or in a modish manner. obsolete,transitive
    — to gallant a fan
  3. To conduct, escort, convey. transitive
    — ... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.
  4. To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
    — How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]
形容词 adj.
  1. Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
    — That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
  2. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
    — I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me. But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Oh! I assure you I began to think my caro sposo would be absolutely jealous.
  3. Honorable.
    — Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  4. Grand, noble.
  5. Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. obsolete
    — This town is built in a very gallant place.

词形变化

more gallant comparative most gallant superlative gallaunt alternative,obsolete more gallant comparative most gallant superlative gallaunt alternative,obsolete gallants plural gallaunt alternative,obsolete gallants present,singular,third-person gallanting participle,present gallanted participle,past gallanted past gallaunt alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
gallanthood gallantize gallantly gallantness gallantry gallant soldier supergallant ultragallant ungallant

词源

词源 1
From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala (“good, well”), a variant form of *wela, from Proto-Germanic *wela (whence well), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English gāl (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
词源 2
17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
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