Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

gallant soldier

British  

noun

  1. Also called: Joey Hooker. a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of gallant soldier

C20: by folk etymology from New Latin Galinsoga


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“Those generations will know Lieutenant Warren as a son of Crown Heights, a gallant soldier and as the best that our nation can offer.”

From New York Times ● May 20, 2022

To set forth the particulars of his conduct would be tedious, we would only beg leave to say that in the Person of this said negro centers a brave and gallant soldier.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2015

Unable to live up to his romantic ideal of the gallant soldier, he was left to imagine such a soldier in his fiction.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013

Honolulu was outraged, for the young woman was the daughter of a gallant soldier, the granddaughter of one of the world's greatest inventors.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the battle of the Thames nearly all the American troops were Kentuckians, and that gallant soldier, Colonel Richard M. Johnson, did noble service in the killing of the noted Tecumseh.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Martha Grassham Purcell

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com