English

Noun

valet ‎(plural valets)

1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
3. (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
5. A person employed to clean or park cars.
6. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
7. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

Synonyms

• (personal attendant): butler (proscribed)

Translations

Verb

valet ‎(third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)

1. (transitive) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

valet m ‎(plural valets)

1. (historical) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
2. (historical) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
3. a male servant, a footman
4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
5. (card games) jack

See also

Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
as	deux	trois	quatre	cinq	six	sept
huit	neuf	dix	valet	dame	roi	joker

Anagrams

• levât

Latin

Verb

valet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of valeō

Middle French

Etymology

Old French vaslet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. manservant; (male) attendant

Descendants

• French: valet

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from French valet.

Noun

valet m ‎(plural valets)

1. (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (Jersey, card games) jack

Derived terms

• valet d'fèrme ‎(“farmhand”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

valet n

1. singular definite of val

Portuguese

Noun

valet m f (plural valets)

1. valet (a person employed to park cars)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from French valet.

Noun

valet m ‎(plural valets)

1. (card games) jack, knave

Swedish

Noun

valet

1. definite singular of val