Cavalry vs Cavalier - What's the difference?
cavalry | cavalier |
(military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
(military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
(military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
Not caring enough about something important.
* 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.46:
High-spirited.
Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
A military man serving on horse.
A sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
One of the court party in the time of King Charles I, as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
A well mannered man; a gentleman.
As nouns the difference between cavalry and cavalier
is that cavalry is the military arm of service that fights while riding horses while cavalier is a military man serving on horse.As an adjective cavalier is
not caring enough about something important.cavalry
English
(wikipedia cavalry)Noun
(cavalries)Derived terms
* heavy cavalry * light cavalry * mechanized cavalryReferences
* Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6Anagrams
*cavalier
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
- Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
