valet

CEFRB2

/ˈvæleɪ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person employed to care for someone's clothes or personal needs.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.

Examples

  • If a restaurant has valet parking it's probably pretty expensive.

  • No man is a hero to his valet.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈvælɪt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.

  2. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.

  3. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.

More examples

In context

  • A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime.

  • You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!

  • […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

At the luxury hotel, the guest gave his car keys to the blank who would park it.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.