Cavalier

[,kævə'lɪə] or [,kævə'lɪr]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.

(noun.) a gallant or courtly gentleman.

(adj.) given to haughty disregard of others .

整理:塞丽娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

(n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.

(n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.

(n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

(a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.

(a.) High-spirited.

(a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

編輯:默里

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Knight, equestrian, horseman, chevalier, horse-soldier.[2]. Partisan of Charles I.

a. Disdainful, haughty, arrogant, supercilious, scornful, insolent, pert, impertinent, saucy.

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同義詞及反義詞：

[See ARROGANT]

汉克整理

解釋/意思:

n. a knight: a Royalist in the great Civil War: a swaggering fellow: a gallant or gentleman in attendance upon a lady as her escort or partner in a dance or the like: in military fortification a raised work so situated as to command the neighbouring country.—adj. like a cavalier: gay: war-like: haughty supercilious free-and-easy.—v.i. to act as cavalier.—adj. Cavalier′ish.—n. Cavalier′ism.—adv. Cavalier′ly.—n. Cavalier′o a cavalier.—Cavaliere-servente (It.) one who waits upon a lady esp. a married lady with fantastic devotion—a cicisbeo.

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