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valet

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See also:válet

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchvalet, fromOld Frenchvaslet, fromMedieval Latin*vassellittus, diminutive ofLate Latinvassallus(“manservant, domestic, retainer”), fromvassus(“servant”), fromGaulish*wassos(“young man, squire”), fromProto-Celtic*wastos(“servant”) (compareOld Irishfoss andWelshgwas).Doublet ofvarlet.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈvæleɪ/,/ˈvælɪt/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈvæleɪ/,/væˈleɪ/,/ˈvælɪt/
Rhymes:-ælɪt,-æleɪ,-eɪ

Noun

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valet (pluralvalets)

A man'spersonal maleattendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
Synonyms:(proscribed)butler,gentleman's gentleman
Ahotel employee performing such duties for guests.
(professional wrestling) Afemale performer inprofessional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
A femalechaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
(US) A person employed to clean orpark cars.
Synonym:parking attendant
A person employed to assist thejockey andtrainer at aracecourse.
Awooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
A kind ofgoad orstick with aniron point.

Derived terms

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Translations

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a man's personal male attendant

Bulgarian:слуга (bg) m(sluga),камериер m(kamerier)
Catalan:ajudant de cambra m
Finnish:miespalvelija (fi),kamaripalvelija (fi)
French:valet (fr) m,valet de chambre (fr) m,majordome (fr) m
Georgian:კამერდინერი(ḳamerdineri),ლაქია(lakia),მოსამსახურე(mosamsaxure)
German:Kammerdiener (de) m,Diener (de) m,Putzer m,Leibdiener (de) m,Hausdiener (de) m,Dienstbote (de) m
Greek:υπηρέτης (el) m(ypirétis)
Hebrew:נושא־כלים m(nossei qeilimm),נער (he) m(na'arr)
Hungarian:inas (hu)
Latin:pedisequus m
Macedonian:ли́чен слу́га m(líčen slúga)
Ottoman Turkish:اوشاق(uşak)
Portuguese:mordomo (pt) m
Romanian:valet (ro) m,fecior (ro) m,lacheu (ro) m
Russian:камерди́нер (ru) m(kamerdíner),слуга́ (ru) m(slugá),денщи́к (ru) m(denščík)(dated),ордина́рец (ru) m(ordinárec)(dated, military)
Scottish Gaelic:gille-coise m
Spanish:edecán (es) m
Swedish:kammartjänare (sv) c
Turkish:uşak (tr)
Yiddish:קאַמער־דינער m(kamer-diner)

a female performer in professional wrestling

Arabic:خادمَة
French:valet (fr)
Spanish:mánager

a female chaperone who accompanies a man

a hotel employee performing such duties for guests

Catalan:assistent (ca) m
Finnish:hotellipalvelija
French:valet (fr) m
Georgian:სასტუმროს მოსამსახურე(sasṭumros mosamsaxure)
German:Hoteldiener m
Greek:καμαριέρης (el) m(kamariéris)
Macedonian:со́бар m(sóbar)
Russian:гости́ничный рабо́тник m(gostíničnyj rabótnik)

a person employed to clean or park cars

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

Verb

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valet (third-person singular simple presentvalets,present participlevaleting,simple past and past participlevaleted)

(transitive) Toserve (someone) as a valet.
- 1866,Wilkie Collins,Armadale‎^[1], London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163:
  You canvalet me, can you? Bothervaleting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when theyare on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
- 1926,Neville Shute, chapter 7, inMarazan‎^[2], London: Cassell:
  […] the red-haired boy who hadvaleted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
(transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) Toclean andservice (acar), as a valet does.
- 2017 March 7, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road”, inThe Irish Sun:
  He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
  “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in forvaleting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
(transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet topark it.
- 2012 May 30,Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!”, inThe Huffington Post:
  I asked Giacomo if he evervaleted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”
- 2017 February 11, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Emma Ludbrook and Tom Windish: Their First Date Was a Big Production”, inThe New York Times:
  “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I hadvaleted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”

References

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“valet”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
“valet”, inCambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromRussianвалет(valet).

Noun

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valet

(card games)jack

Declension

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Declension ofvalet
	singular	plural
nominative	valet	valetler
genitive	valetniñ	valetlerniñ
dative	valetke	valetlerge
accusative	valetni	valetlerni
locative	valette	valetlerde
ablative	valetten	valetlerden

References

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“valet”, inLuğatçıq (in Russian)

Estonian

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Noun

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valet

partitive singular ofvale

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchvaslet, fromMedieval Latin*vassellittus, diminutive ofLate Latinvassallus(“manservant, domestic, retainer”), fromLatinvassus(“servant”), fromGaulish*wassos(“young man, squire”), fromProto-Celtic*wastos(“servant”) (compareOld Irishfoss andWelshgwas).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /va.lɛ/
Audio: (file)

Noun

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valet m (pluralvalets)

(history) a maleattendant of aknight or alord
(history)officer belonging to the king's house or aprincely house, alsovalet de chambre
a male servant, afootman
awooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, alsovalet de nuit
(card games)jack
(especially in the formvalet de menuisier) aholdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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→ Bulgarian:вале́(valé)
→ Greek:βαλές(valés)
→ Portuguese:valete
→ Russian:вале́т(valét)
- → Ingrian:valetti
→ Turkish:vale

Playing cards in French ·cartes àjouer(layout ·text)

as	deux	trois	quatre	cinq	six	sept

huit	neuf	dix	valet	dame	roi	joker

Anagrams

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levât

Latin

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Verb

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valet

third-person singular present active indicative ofvaleō

Middle French

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French:valet

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchvalet.

Noun

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valet m (pluralvalets)

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(Jersey, card games)jack

Derived terms

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valet d'fèrme(“farmhand”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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valet n

definite singular ofval

Portuguese

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