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stalwart is an adjective and noun meaning "having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships". It carries 4 recorded senses.
dependable
“the stalwart citizens at Lexington”
“a stalwart supporter of the UN”
“stout hearts”
used especially of persons
“a stalwart knight”
“a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stalwart come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.