valet

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French valet

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvælɪt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈvæleɪ/, /væˈleɪ/
• Rhymes: -ælɪt, -æleɪ, -eɪ

Noun

valet (plural valets)

1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
3. (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
5. A person employed to clean or park cars.
6. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

Synonyms

• (personal attendant): butler (proscribed)

Translations

a man's personal male attendant

• Finnish: miespalvelija (fi), kamaripalvelija (fi)
• French: valet (fr) m, valet de chambre (fr) m
• German: Kammerdiener (de) m, Diener (de) m
• Hungarian: inas (hu)

• Macedonian: личен слуга (mk) (líčen slúga) m
• Russian: камердинер (ru) (kamerdíner) m, слуга (ru) (slugá) m, денщик (ru) (denščík) m (dated), ординарец (ru) (ordinárec) m (dated, military)

a female performer in professional wrestling

• Arabic: خادمة (ar)
• French: valet (fr)

• Spanish: mánager (es)

a female chaperone who accompanies a man

• Dutch: gezelschapsdame (nl) f

• Russian: дуэнья (ru) (duénʹja) f (dated)

a hotel employee performing such duties for guests

• Finnish: hotellipalvelija (fi)
• French: valet (fr) m

• Russian: ‎гостиничный работник (gostíničnyj rabótnik) m 

a person employed to clean or park cars

• French: valet (fr) m
• Greek: παρκαδόρος (el) (parkadóros) m

• Portuguese: garagista (pt) m and f

a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing

• Russian: вешалка (ru) (véšalka) f

Verb

valet (third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)

1. (transitive) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. (history) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
2. (history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
3. a male servant, a footman
4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
5. (card games) jack

Anagrams

• levât

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Jèrriais

Etymology

Borrowing from French valet

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

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2. (card games) jack

Derived terms

• valet d'fèrme (“farmhand”)

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Latin

Verb

valet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of valeō

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French vaslet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. manservant; (male) attendant

Descendants

• French: valet

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

valet n

1. singular definite of val

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from French valet.

Noun

valet m

1. (card games) a jack in a deck of cards

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Swedish

Noun

valet

1. definite singular of val