cavalier

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈkæ.vəˌlir/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights. historical
  2. A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man. historical
  3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly
  4. A gentleman of the class of such officers; A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign. historical
  5. Someone with an uncircumcised penis. slang
    — The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.
  6. A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
动词 v.
  1. Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women). dated,transitive
    — His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
    — But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion.
  2. High-spirited.
  3. Supercilious.
  4. Free and easy; unconcerned with formalities obsolete
    — Leporello (a surname that proved the antechamber not to be wholly illiterate), far from resembling Don Juan’s trembling valet, was a handsome young man, with an animated face, nimble in gait, and of cavalier manners; wearing elegantly enough the clothes which had, doubtless, appertained to his master; and evidently quite the pet of the ladies present, and paying assiduous court to Mademoiselle Astarté, the queen of the party.
  5. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649). historical

词形变化

more cavalier comparative most cavalier superlative cavaliers plural cavaliers present,singular,third-person cavaliering participle,present cavaliered participle,past cavaliered past

词汇关系

衍生词
beaglier Cavachon cavalierish cavalierism cavalierly cavalierness cavaliership Cavoodle klavalier uncavalier
相关词
caballero

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
Late Latin caballus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Late Latin -āriusnom.
Late Latin -ārius
Late Latin caballāriusder.
Old Occitan cavalierbor.
Old Italian cavalierebor.
Middle French cavalierbor.
English cavalier
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
Late Latin caballus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Late Latin -āriusnom.
Late Latin -ārius
Late Latin caballāriusder.
Old Occitan cavalierbor.
Old Italian cavalierebor.
Middle French cavalierbor.
English cavalier
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
Late Latin caballus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Late Latin -āriusnom.
Late Latin -ārius
Late Latin caballāriusder.
Old Occitan cavalierbor.
Old Italian cavalierebor.
Middle French cavalierbor.
English cavalier
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
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