Warrior vs Cavalier - What's the difference?
warrior | cavalier |
A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
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(lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
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 warrior and cavalier
is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while cavalier is a military man serving on horse.As an adjective cavalier is
not caring enough about something important.warrior
English
Alternative forms
* warriour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Derived terms
* bloody warrior * warriorhoodReferences
* *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.