valet
Plural: valets
Noun
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- 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.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Verb
Verb Forms: valeted, valeting, valets
- To serve as a personal attendant, performing duties like parking cars.
- serve as a personal attendant to
- To serve (someone) as a valet.
- To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
- To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
Examples
- She decided to VALET her opponent’s move, setting up a better play for herself next turn.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Scrabble Score: 8
valet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvalet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
valet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
valet: valid Words With Friends Word