Horseman vs Cavalier - What's the difference?
horseman | cavalier |
A man who rides a horse.
A soldier on horseback.
A man skilled in horsemanship.
(UK, agriculture, obsolete) A man in charge of work horses.
A swift-running land crab of the genus , living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies.
A West Indian fish of the genus ).
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 horseman and cavalier
is that horseman is a man who rides a horse while cavalier is a military man serving on horse.As an adjective cavalier is
not caring enough about something important.horseman
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(wikipedia horseman) (Ocypoda) (Eques)Noun
(horsemen)See also
* ("horseman" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* *cavalier
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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.
