Gallant
Bible Usage:
- gallant used once.
- Bible Reference: Isaiah 33:21
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H117 Used 1 time
GAL'LANT, adjective [Eng. could; Latin gallus, a cock.]
1. Gay; well dressed; showy; splendid; magnificent.
Neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Isaiah 33:21.
The gay, the wise, the gallant and the grave.
[This sense is obsolete.]
2. Brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
3. Fine; noble.
4. Courtly; civil; polite and attentive to ladies; courteous.
GALLANT', noun A gay, sprightly man; a courtly or fashionable man.
1. A man who is polite and attentive to ladies; one who attends upon ladies at parties, or to places of amusement.
2. A wooer; a lover; a suitor.
3. In an ill sense, one who caresses a woman for lewd purposes.
GALLANT', verb transitive To attend or wait on, as a lady.
1. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.
GAL'LANTLY, adverb Gaily; splendidly.
1. Bravely; nobly; heroically; generously; as, to fight gallantly; to defend a place gallantly
GAL'LANTNESS, noun Elegance or completeness of an acquired qualification.
GAL'LANTRY, noun
1. Splendor of appearance; show; magnificence; ostentatious finery. [Obsolete or obsolescent.]
2. Bravery; courageousness; heroism; intrepidity. The troops entered the fort with great gallantry
3. Nobleness; generosity.
4. Civility or polite attentions to ladies.
5. Vicious love or pretensions to love; civilities paid to females for the purpose of winning favors; hence, lewdness; debauchery.
Bible Usage:
- gallant used once.
- Bible Reference: Isaiah 33:21
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H117 Used 1 time