Definition of VALET

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.

Synonyms

gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet de chambre, butler, parking attendant

Scrabble Score: 8

valet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
valet: 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