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# cavalier

«cavalier» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mounted soldier or a fine gentleman who rides on horseback** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cavalier, cavaliers); adjective (cavalier, no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) A cavalier is a mounted soldier or a fine gentleman who rides on horseback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/#m1)

2) Cavalier means careless or offhand, showing little care for other people's feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a polite knight on horseback; a cavalier answer is a rude or offhand one

### examples

- The cavalier rode up to the castle gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/#x1)
- He gave a cavalier wave and walked off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/#x2)
- «I have never heard of her,» said the cavalier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cavalier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cavalier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.