valet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: val=et

CIDE DICTIONARY

valet, n. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet, vaslet. See Varlet, and Vassal.].

•  A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person; a body servant.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.  [1913 Webster]

∥Valet de chambre ( [F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

THESAURUS

valet

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

ROGET THESAURUS

valet

Servant

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.