CHEVALIER

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• CHEVALIER (noun)
  The noun CHEVALIER has 2 senses:

1. French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)

2. a gallant or courtly gentleman

  Familiarity information: CHEVALIER used as a noun is rare.

• CHEVALIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chevalier; Maurice Chevalier

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gallant or courtly gentleman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cavalier; chevalier

Hypernyms ("chevalier" is a kind of...):

male aristocrat (a man who is an aristocrat)

 Context examples 

You heard of my bout with the Chevalier d’Eon?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is how it runs: 'A le moult puissant et moult honorable chevalier, Sir Nigel Loring de Christchurch, de son tres fidele ami Sir Claude Latour, capitaine de la Compagnie blanche, chatelain de Biscar, grand seigneur de Montchateau, vavaseur de le renomme Gaston, Comte de Foix, tenant les droits de la haute justice, de la milieu, et de la basse.'

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)