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Definitions: Gallantry |
GallantryNoun1. The qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor". 2. Courtesy towards women. 3. Polite attentiveness to women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gallantry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Etymology: Gallantry \Gal"lant*ry\, noun; plural Gallantries. [French expression galanterie.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | This word is now almost obsolete. It was formerly employed to express a deferential attention on the part of the man who in a crowded car gave up his seat to the ladies. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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Synonyms: GallantrySynonyms: chivalry (n), heroism (n), politesse (n), valiance (n), valiancy (n), valor (n), valorousness (n), valour (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance. |
Courtesy | Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. |
Endearment | Flirting; Verb: flirtation, gallantry; coquetry. |
Impurity | Incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation. |
Love | Yearning, gr/eros/gr, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gallantry |
| English words defined with "gallantry": chivalrous, Croix de Guerre ♦ desperate, Disgallant, Druery ♦ gallant, Gallantries, Grisette ♦ heroic ♦ knightly ♦ Silver Star, Silver Star Medal ♦ Victoria Cross. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gallantry": GANDER MONTH ♦ Michal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gallantry": Disgallant. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, and Basil, one more thing: If you're going to grope a girl, have the gallantry to stay in the room with her while you're doing it. (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gallantry of Jimmy Rodgers (1915) Long Road to Gallantry (1984) | |
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MoliFre | Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. |
Richard Sheridan | Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | His gallantry was always on the alert. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | That this chaste, almost severe, love was absolutely without gallantry, we will not say. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | The high character of the American commander was brilliantly sustained on the occasion which brought his own ship into close action with that of his adversary, as was the accustomed gallantry of all the officers and men actually engaged. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | His gallantry in a brilliant exploit in the late war added to the renown of his country. |
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| "Gallantry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gallantry" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 77 | 37,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "gallantry": behave oneself with gallantry. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gallantry | 11 |
viet nam cross of gallantry | 10 |
gallantry ring valorium | 4 |
cross gallantry | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gallantry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trimëri (belligerency, bravery, daring, hardihood, hardiness, intrepidity, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valour), sjellje galante, aventurë dashurie. (various references) | |
Arabic | كياسة بالغة, تودد للنساء, بسالة (courage, intrepidity, valor, valour), بطولة (championship, heroism, prowess). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ухажване (addresses, attentions, court, courtship, suit), смелост (audacity, boldness, bravery, courage, daring, enterprise, hardihood, hardiness, manliness, pluck, sand, spirit, valor, valour), храброст (bravery, spirit, valiancy, valor, valour), комплимент (compliment), галантност, любовна история (affair, amour, love affair, romance, wing-ding). (various references) | |
Czech | udatnost (bravery, valiancy, valor, valour), stateènost (fortitude, grit, prowess, stoutness, valiancy, virtue), rytířskost, dvornost (chivalry, courtesy, courtliness). (various references) | |
Farsi | زن نوازی , رشادت (Courage, Heart), شجاعت (Bravery, Courage, Heroism, Manhood, Pluck, Valor), دلاوری (Courage, Valor), بهادری . (various references) | |
Finnish | uljuus (bravery, stateliness). (various references) | |
French | galanterie, vaillance, courage, bravoure. (various references) | |
German | edelmut (generosity, magnanimity, nobleness), tapferkeit (boldness, bravado, braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, fortitude, prowess, stoutness, valor, valour), galanterie. (various references) | |
Greek | γενναιότησ (braveness, courageousness, generousness, pluck, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour), γενναιότητα (braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, fortitude, generousness, pluck, prowess, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour), ευγένεια (chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration for, courtesy, cousteousness, delicacy, gentility, gentleness, graciousness, humaneness, ladyship, loftiness, nobility, nobleness, politeness, refinement, respectfulness, tactfulness, urbanity, urbanness), αβρότησ (courtliness, cousteousness, gentleness), ανδραγαθία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bátorság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, bravado, bravery, courage, dutch courage, fearlessness, fortitude, heroism, high spirits, manhood, nerve, pluck, prowess, spunk, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keberanian (bravery, courage, daring, mettle, spunk, valiance, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Italian | galanteria, valore (account, bravery, courage, denomination, denomination of banknotes, investment in securities, limit, mask, merit, price, purchase, security, stock, valor, valour, value, worth, worthiness), cavalleria (cavalry, chivalry, horse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 勇敢 (bravery, heroism). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きおいは (manliness), きょうゆう (accomplished villain, chivalry, enjoyment, hamlet, joint ownership, possession, ringleader, share, village), ぶきょう (chivalry, heroism, the teachings of Bushido), いたて (dandyism, showy, vainglorious), いさみは , むしゃぶり (prowess), ゆうか" (bravery, distress, evening paper, heroism, leisured, quiet and secluded, sorrow, worry), て (dandyism, showy, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Manx | gialteeys, gastoilid (bravery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allantrygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galantaria, valentia (bravery, Doughty, force, manganese, prowess, valiancy, valor, valour), namorar (court, flirt, woo), intrepidez (chivalry, courage, dissolution, hardily, hardiness, intrepidity, knightliness, prowess, resolution, stoutness), cortesia (amenity, attention, civility, comity, courtesy, mannerliness, politeness, suavity, urbanity), coragem (adventure, audaciousness, audacity, bravery, courage, daring, doughtiness, guts, hackle, hardihood, hardiness, heart attack, intricacy, killed, manfulness, manhood, manliness, nerve, pluck, prowess, resolution, sand, spunk, stoutness), bravura (bravery, chivalry, courage, derring-do, exploit, valiancy, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Romanian | galanterie (courtesy, dry goods, haberdasher's, haberdashery, hosier's, millinery), vitejie (bravery, courage, doughtiness, spunk, stoutness, valor, valour), mãrinimie (breadth, generosity, magnanimity, nobility, open-handedness), curtenie (courteousness), curaj (boldness, bravery, chins up, come on, courage, fearlessness, fortitude, go, grit, gut, hardihood, manliness, nerve, pluck, recklessness, spirit, spunk, stomach, stoutness, valor, valour), cavalerism (chivalrousness, knightliness), bravurã (bravery, courage, prowess, valiance, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Russian | галантность (debonair). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galantnost, junaštvo (bravery, heroism, prowess, valor, valour), hrabrost (bravery, courage, doughtiness, fortitude, gut, hardihood, heart, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, sportsmanship, spunk, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Spanish | gallardía (dash, fineness, gracefulness), galantería. (various references) | |
Swedish | galanteri (courtesy, haberdashery), tapperhet (bravery, courage, nerve, prowess, valor, valour), hjältemod (heroism). (various references) | |
Thai | ความกล้าหาญ (boldness, gumption, gut, spunk). (various references) | |
Turkish | yiğitlik (achievements, bravery, courage, dare devilry, dare deviltry, daring, doughtiness, exploit, feat, gameness, intrepidity, manfulness, pluckiness, prowess, stoutness, valiantness, valor, virility), nezaket (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, daintiness, decency, decorum, delicacy, devoirs, gentleness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, keenness, kindliness, kindness, mildness, polish, politeness, suavity, sweetness, urbaneness, urbanity), macera (adventure, affair, business, business deal, case, cloak-and-dagger, exploit, flirt, flirtation, matter, romance), kahramanlık (achievements, bravery, deed, exploit, feat, heroism, prowess, valor, valour), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), cesaret (audacity, bear up, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, doughtiness, enterprise, fearlessness, fortitude, grit, gumption, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, nerve, pecker, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, ticker, valiantness, valor, valour), aşk (adoration, amorous, amour, crush, love, passion). (various references) | |
Ukranian | хоробрість (bravery, courage, spunk, valiance, valiancy), галантність (debonair, douceur), залицяння (address, court, courtship, flirtation, wooing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự gan dạ (dauntlessness, doughtiness, gameness, gut, hardihood, hardiness, intestinal fortitude, moxie), sự can đảm (courage), lòng dũng cảm h nh động dũng cảm sự chiều chuộng phụ nữ cử chỉ lịch sự với phụ nữ, lời nói lịch sự với phụ nữ chuyện tán tỉnh yêu đương chuyện dâm ô. (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Gallantry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balantyre, Ballantyre, Ballintoy, galanterie, galantrie, galantry, gallanty. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gallantry" (pronounced ga"luntrē) |
| 5 | -u n t r ē | carpentry, infantry, pageantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry. |
| 4 | -n t r ē | complementary, country, elementary, entry, gantry, gentry, pantry, reentry, sentry, wintry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, asymmetry, banditry, baptistery, basketry, bigotry, biochemistry, cabinetry, chemistry, circuitry, dentistry, dissymmetry, forestry, gadgetry, geochemistry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, industry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, optometry, palmistry, paltry, pastry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, registry, rocketry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, tapestry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-l-l-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: laryngal, tarnally. | |
-2 letters: gallant. | |
-3 letters: alanyl, anally, angary, antral, argyll, gantry, gnarly, raglan, ratany, tangly, tarnal, yantra. | |
-4 letters: alang, alant, alary, algal, allay, altar, angry, antra, argal, artal, gally, gayal, glary, gnarl, graal, grana, grant, gyral, lagan, lyart, natal, nyala, rally, rangy, ratal, ratan, talar, tally, tangy. | |
-5 letters: agar, agly, alan, alar, alga, ally, anal, anga, anta, arty, aryl, gala, gall, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gray, lang, nary, raga, rang, rant, raya, tala, tall, tang, tarn, tray, yang, yarn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-l-l-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: flagrantly. | |
+3 letters: fragmentally, tetragonally, triangularly. | |
+4 letters: gradationally, rectangularly. | |
+5 letters: acceleratingly, exhilaratingly, generationally, iatrogenically, morganatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 6C 61 6E 74 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l l a n t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 006C 0061 006E 0074 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416778786780868491 |
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