Usually means: Disregarding others with arrogant attitude.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. cavalier: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Cavalier, cavalier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cavalier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cavalier: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cavalier: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cavalier, cavalier: Wordnik
  7. Cavalier, cavalier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cavalier, cavalier: Wiktionary
  9. cavalier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cavalier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cavalier: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cavalier, cavalier: Dictionary.com
  13. cavalier: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cavalier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons), Cavalier (N&W train), Cavalier (Nedor), Cavalier (comics), Cavalier (disambiguation), Cavalier (fortification), Cavalier (magazine), Cavalier, The Cavalier (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cavalier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cavalier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Cavalier: Rhymezone
  19. Cavalier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cavalier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cavalier: Free Dictionary
  22. cavalier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cavalier, cavalier: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. cavalier: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. cavalier: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalier: Ballet

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalier (royalist), cavalier: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalier (royalist), cavalier: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cavalier: A Word A Day

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cavalier: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cavalier: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. cavalier: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalier: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See cavalierism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not caring enough about something important.
adjective:  High-spirited.
adjective:  Supercilious.
adjective:  (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
noun:  (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
noun:  (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
noun:  A gentleman of the class of such officers
noun:  (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
noun:  (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
noun:  (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
verb:  (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
noun:  A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.

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