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cavalery

cavalery is the obsolete form of cavalry.

Meaning of cavalry

Noun

cavalry (countable and uncountable, plural cavalries)

  1. (historical, uncountable, usually) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
    • Two hundred heavily-armed cavalry rode behind the Audley standard, while close at their heels came the Duke of Lancaster with a glittering train, heralds tabarded with the royal arms riding three deep upon cream-colored chargers in front of him.1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXXIII, in The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC
  2. (countable) An individual unit of this arm of service.
  3. (countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
  4. (figuratively) A source of rescue, especially in an emergency.
    • call in the cavalry

Noun

cavalery

  1. cavalier, courtly gentleman

Forms of cavalery

pluralcavaleries

Questions about cavalery

What does cavalery mean?
Cavalery means cavalier, courtly gentleman.
What is cavalery the obsolete form of?
Cavalery is the obsolete form of cavalry.
What part of speech is cavalery?
Cavalery is a noun.
What is the plural of cavalery?
The plural of cavalery is cavaleries.

Words near cavalery in the dictionary

  1. Cavalera
  2. Cavaleras
  3. cavaleries
  4. cavalero
  5. cavaleros
  6. cavalery
  7. cavaletti
  8. cavaletto
  9. cavalettos
  10. cavalier
  11. Cavalier County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cavalery (page history and authors); cavalry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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