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valet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun valet has 1 sense
- valet(n = noun.person) gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet de chambre - a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" is a kind of body servant, manservant
Derived form verb valet1
Verb valet has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
valet, n. & v.
--n.
1 a gentleman's personal attendant who looks after his clothes etc.
2 a hotel etc. employee with similar duties.
--v. (valeted, valeting)
1 intr. work as a valet.
2 tr. act as a valet to.
3 tr. clean or clean out (a car).
--n.
1 a gentleman's personal attendant who looks after his clothes etc.
2 a hotel etc. employee with similar duties.
--v. (valeted, valeting)
1 intr. work as a valet.
2 tr. act as a valet to.
3 tr. clean or clean out (a car).
Etymology
F, = OF valet, vaslet, VARLET: rel. to VASSAL
THESAURUS
valet
administer to, attend, attend on, boy, butler, care for, chauffeur, chore, coachman, dance attendance upon, do for, do service to, driver, drudge, equerry, gardener, gentleman, gillie, help, houseboy, houseman, lackey, look after, lord-in-waiting, maid, man, manservant, minister to, pander to, serve, take care of, tend, upon, valet de chambre, wait, wait on, work forROGET THESAURUS
valet
Servant
N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.
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