gallant

«gallant» in Mova's school dictionary: Brave, especially in a fine, noble way: a gallant knight — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (gallant, more gallant, most gallant); noun (a gallant, gallants — old)

meaning for a pupil

1) Brave, especially in a fine, noble way: a gallant knight. tree →

2) (of a man, old-fashioned) Very polite and kind to women. tree →

3) (old) Grand and splendid to look at: a gallant ship. tree →

4) (noun, old) a fashionable young man. tree →

sense in the lessons

Found in stories of knights, soldiers and heroes, and in history. «A gallant effort» means a brave try, even if it failed — common in sports reports. In The Wind in the Willows the friends make a gallant attack to win back Toad Hall from the weasels.

examples

• The gallant knight rode to save the village. tree →
• The team made a gallant effort but lost. tree →
• He held the door open in a gallant way. tree →
• The four friends made a gallant charge into Toad Hall. tree →
• The gallant soldiers did not run away. tree →
• Toad imagined himself as a gallant hero. tree →
• A gallant ship sailed into the harbour. tree →

note

Say «GAL-ant» for brave; «ga-LANT» sometimes for the polite-to-women sense (old). Noun: gallantry (bravery). Adverb: gallantly.

In the corpora

• Toad, the gallant Water Rat, the famous Mr.
• And that's the gallant Water Rat, a terrible fighter, walking along o' him!

Trees and pragmatics

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