Valet

Quick meaning: Valet is a noun meaning A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.

Meaning

A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.

More Meanings

1. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
2. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
3. (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
4. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
5. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
6. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

[…] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.

I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”

A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime.

“‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”

Word Forms

• valets
• valeting
• valeted

Synonyms for valet

Depending on context, synonyms include butler, man, gentleman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gentleman, man, butler, servant, steward, assistant.

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