cavalier

«cavalier» in Mova's school dictionary: a mounted soldier or a fine gentleman who rides on horseback — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (cavalier, cavaliers); adjective (cavalier, no comparative)

meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) A cavalier is a mounted soldier or a fine gentleman who rides on horseback. tree →

2) Cavalier means careless or offhand, showing little care for other people's feelings. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, a polite knight on horseback; a cavalier answer is a rude or offhand one

examples

• The cavalier rode up to the castle gate. tree →
• He gave a cavalier wave and walked off. tree →
• «I have never heard of her,» said the cavalier. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cavalier» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.