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- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
Other Words
- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
Other Words
- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
Other Words
- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
Other Words
- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
Other Words
- Chicana adjective
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
Mexican Spanish, feminine of chicanoFirst Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined aboveHistory and Etymology
alteration of chich pea, from Middle English chiche, from Anglo-French, from Latin cicerchief petty officer
noun
Definition
- : an enlisted sailor or mariner in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined abovechief warrant officer
noun
Definition
- : a warrant officer of senior rank in the armed forcesalso : a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking below an ensign
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined abovechivalrous
Definition
- : valiant //chivalrous warriors
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry //a chivalrous quest
- : marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy //appreciated the chivalrous acts of the general: marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women //A chivalrous man offered the woman his seat on the crowded bus.
Other Words
- chivalrously adverb
- chivalrousness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
big elevated gallant great greathearted high high-minded lofty lordly magnanimous natural noble sublimeAntonyms
base debased degenerate degraded ignoble lowExamples
- //a kind and chivalrous man
- //still engages in chivalrous behavior, such as holding doors for people
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1History and Etymology
Middle English chivalerous, chevalrous, chyvalrous "excelling in warfare, valiant, exemplifying the ideals of chivalry," borrowed from Anglo-French chevalerus, chevalrous (continental Old French chevalerous), from chevalerie "body of knights serving an overlord, chivalry" + -us, -ous -ousNOTE: As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, chivalrous was apparently obsolescent by the mid-eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson, in his dictionary (1755), has only a citation from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) and remarks "a word now out of use." It was revived in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Romanticism and a renewed interest in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation of this word and chivalry with \sh\ rather than \ch\, as if they were taken from Modern French, presumably arose at that period.
chivalrous