Gallant vs Servant - What's the difference?
gallant | servant |
Brave, valiant.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Honorable.
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Grand, noble.
(lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) topgallant
(obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
(obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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As nouns the difference between gallant and servant
is that gallant is (dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women while servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation as opposed to a slave.As verbs the difference between gallant and servant
is that gallant is (obsolete|transitive) to attend or wait on (a lady) while servant is (obsolete) to subject.As an adjective gallant
is brave, valiant or gallant can be polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.gallant
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Alternative forms
* gallaunt (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- Captain Edward Carlisle; 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.
- The town is built in a very gallant place.
- our royal, good and gallant ship
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...]
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
- About a midnight gallant , seen to climb
- A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
- I will from her turn off,
- Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
Verb
(en verb)- to gallant ladies to the play
- to gallant a fan