valet(n = noun.person) gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet de chambre - a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
is a kind of body servant, manservant
Derived form verb valet1
valet(v = verb.social) - serve as a personal attendant to;
is one way to assist, attend, attend to, serve, wait on
Derived form noun valet1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
1. A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant. [1913 Webster]
2. A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. [1913 Webster]
valet, n. & v.
--n.
1 a gentleman's personal attendant who looks after his clothes etc.
2 a hotel etc. employee with similar duties.
--v. (valeted, valeting)
1 intr. work as a valet.
2 tr. act as a valet to.
3 tr. clean or clean out (a car).
Etymology:
F, = OF valet, vaslet, VARLET: rel. to VASSAL
N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.