Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: valet
IPA transcription: [væl'eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: valet, valet_de_chambre, gentleman, gentleman's_gentleman, man
    Meaning: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: valet
    Meaning: serve as a personal attendant to
Usage examples
  • Who can tell?" the valet muttered evasively.
  • Was it he killed your father or was it the valet?
  • "The valet killed him, my brother is innocent," answered Alyosha.
  • After more of the same kind of talk, he began to cook up some yarn to tell the valet.
  • It contained, when afloat, the captain and his wife, Mr. Wyatt and party, a Mexican officer, wife, four children, and myself, with a negro valet.
  • Almost immediately after Major Vernon's departure, Henry Dunbar rang the bell for the servant who acted as his valet whenever he required the services of one, which was not often.
  • But if he had been asked why, he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world.
  • Then before the valet could effect his supreme devotion had come the hail of bullets, and he had fallen against her, the blood that poured from his wounds saturating her linen coat, and rolled over across her feet.
  • "I was spending the evening at the Gentlemen's Gentlemen's Club," I explained, "when word came over the telephone to Digby, Mr. de Pelt's valet, that Mr. de Pelt was at the Rockerbilts' and in no condition to go home alone.
  • Jos descended from the post-chaise and down the creaking swaying steps in awful state, supported by the new valet from Southampton and the shuddering native, whose brown face was now livid with cold and of the colour of a turkey's gizzard.