cavalier

Other forms of cavalier

plural

cavaliers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cavalier

What does cavalier mean?

cavalier means "a gallant or courtly gentleman". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cavalier?

cavalier has 3 syllables: cav-a-lier. The stress falls on "lier". In IPA it is /ˌkævəˈlɪɹ/.

What is another word for cavalier?

Close synonyms include chevalier, Royalist, high-handed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cavalier a common word?

cavalier is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cavalier?

5 words rhyme with cavalier. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.