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# chivalrous

«chivalrous» in Mova's school dictionary: **brave, polite and kind, especially to women and the weak…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Chivalrous means brave, polite and kind, especially to women and the weak, as knights were meant to be. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chivalrous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hero who behaves nobly and fairly, even to an enemy.

### examples

- The chivalrous prince saved the maiden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chivalrous/#x1)
- It was chivalrous of him to let her go first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chivalrous/#x2)
- He gave up his seat to the old lady, a chivalrous act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chivalrous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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