gallant: meaning and definitions

Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing: a gallant feathered hat; cut a gallant figure at the coronation.

Unflinching in battle or action; valiant: put up a gallant resistance to the attackers.

Nobly or selflessly resolute: made a gallant attempt to save his friend's reputation.

Stately; majestic.

Courteously attentive especially to women; chivalrous.

Flirtatious; amorous.

A fashionable young man.

A man courteously attentive to women.

A woman's lover; a paramour.

To woo or pay court to (a lady).

To play the gallant.