galant

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French galant (gallant).

Adjective

galant

  1. (historical, music, art) Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
  2. (music) Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

Derived terms

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French galant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

galant m or f (masculine and feminine plural galants)

  1. gallant, charming, flirtatious
  2. (colloquial) remarkable, excellent

Usage notes

  • In the sense of "excellent", galant precedes the noun it modifies, e.g. un galant jovea remarkable young man.

Derived terms

Noun

galant m (plural galants)

  1. gallant
  2. male lead, hero

Further reading

French

Etymology

Present participle of Old French galer, from Frankish *wala (well), from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(h₁)- (to choose, wish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡa.lɑ̃/
  • Audio:(file)

Participle

galant

  1. present participle of galer

Adjective

galant (feminine galante, masculine plural galants, feminine plural galantes)

  1. gallant, courteous, gentlemanly
  2. flirtatious, amorous; racy

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

galant m (plural galants)

  1. (archaic or humorous) suitor, admirer

Further reading

Anagrams

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French galant (brave; noble; chivalrous).

Noun

galant m (plural galants)

  1. lover

German

Etymology

From French galant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

galant (strong nominative masculine singular galanter, comparative galanter, superlative am galantesten)

  1. gallant

Declension

Further reading

  • galant” in Duden online
  • galant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German galant. Compare Masovian Polish galanty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa.lant/
  • Rhymes: -alant
  • Syllabification: ga‧lant

Adjective

galant (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

  1. gallant

Further reading

  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “szarmancki”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “szarmancki”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Norman

Etymology

From Old French galant (brave; noble; chivalrous).

Noun

galant m (plural galants)

  1. (Jersey) boyfriend

Old French

Verb

galant

  1. present participle of galer

Adjective

galant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular galant or galante)

  1. brave; noble; chivalrous

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French galant.

Adjective

galant m or n (feminine singular galantă, masculine plural galanți, feminine and neuter plural galante)

  1. gallant

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite galant galantă galanți galante
definite galantul galanta galanții galantele
genitive-
dative
indefinite galant galante galanți galante
definite galantului galantei galanților galantelor

Swedish

Adjective

galant (comparative galantare, superlative galantast)

  1. gallant, courteous, flirtatious

Declension

Inflection of galant
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular galant galantare galantast
neuter singular galant galantare galantast
plural galanta galantare galantast
masculine plural2 galante galantare galantast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 galante galantare galantaste
all galanta galantare galantaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Adverb

galant (not comparable)

  1. splendidly, swimmingly
    Det där fixade du galant
    You did that splendidly
    Det gick galant
    It went swimmingly

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