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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word gallant:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gallant, gallant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gallant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gallant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gallant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gallant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gallant, gallant: Wordnik
  7. gallant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gallant, gallant: Wiktionary
  9. gallant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gallant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gallant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gallant, gallant: Dictionary.com
  13. gallant (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gallant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gallant (singer), Gallant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gallant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gallant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gallant: Rhymezone
  19. Gallant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gallant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gallant: Free Dictionary
  22. gallant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Gallant, gallant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. gallant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Gallant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gallant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gallant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gallant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gallanting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
adjective:  honorable.
adjective:  grand, noble.
adjective:  (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
adjective:  Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
noun:  (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
noun:  One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
noun:  (nautical) A topgallant.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
verb:  (transitive) To conduct, escort, convey.
verb:  To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Etowah County and St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, named after a pioneer settler.

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