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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VAL'ET, n.
1. A waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person.
2. In the manege, a kind of goad or stick armed with a point of iron.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] v
1: serve as a personal attendant to

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English vadlet, valet, from Anglo-French, young man of noble birth serving a lord, boy, servant, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of vassus servant — more at vassal Date: 14th century 1. a. a man's male servant who performs personal services (as taking care of clothing) b. an employee (as of a hotel or a public facility) who performs personal services for customers 2. a device (as a rack or tray) for holding clothing or personal effects II. transitive verb Date: 1840 to serve as a valet

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Valet Val"et (?; 277), n. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet, vaslet. See Varlet, and Vassal.] 1. A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant. 2. (Man.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. Valet de chambre[F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(valets, valeting, valeted) 1. A valet is a male servant who looks after his employer by doing things such as caring for his clothes and cooking for him. N-COUNT 2. If someone valets a vehicle, they are paid to clean it thoroughly inside and out. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Fr.] Groom, servant, serving-man, waiting-servant, waiter, lackey, attendant, flunky.

Moby Thesaurus

administer to, attend, attend on, boy, butler, care for, chauffeur, chore, coachman, dance attendance upon, do for, do service to, driver, drudge, equerry, gardener, gentleman, gillie, help, houseboy, houseman, lackey, look after, lord-in-waiting, maid, man, manservant, minister to, pander to, serve, take care of, tend, upon, valet de chambre, wait, wait on, work for