See gallant on Wiktionary
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"English transitive verbs"
],
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{
"ref": "1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To conduct, escort, convey."
],
"links": [
[
"conduct",
"conduct"
],
[
"escort",
"escort"
],
[
"convey",
"convey"
]
],
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"(transitive) To conduct, escort, convey."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840 February 7, The Sydney Herald, page 2, column 5:",
"text": "How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡəˈlænt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡælənt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ɡəˈlɑnt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡælənt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænt"
}
],
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"gallant"
],
"word": "gallant"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "cy-mut",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "gallant",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "allant",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "ngallant",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "gallan",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gallant",
"name": "cy-verb form"
}
],
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"args": {},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "cy",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
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"Welsh non-lemma forms",
"Welsh verb forms"
],
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{
"word": "gallu"
}
],
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"third-person plural present/future of gallu"
],
"links": [
[
"gallu",
"gallu#Welsh"
]
],
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],
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"future",
"literary",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɡaɬant/"
}
],
"word": "gallant"
}
Download raw JSONL data for gallant meaning in All languages combined (29.5kB)
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"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: gallant/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"gallant"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "gallant",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: gallant/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"gallant"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "gallant",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: gallant/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"gallant"
],
"section": "Welsh",
"subsection": "verb",
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}
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