valet
/ˈvæleɪ/US/ˈvæleɪ/
valet noun: a man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
Noun
valet (plural valets)
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- Synonyms:
- butler, gentleman's gentleman
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime.2017 March 7, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road”, in The Irish Sun, archived from...
- Synonyms:
- parking attendant
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Verb
valet (third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)
- To serve (someone) as a valet.
- You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163
- […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.1926, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Marazan, London: Cassell
- To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
- He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
“You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal...2017 March 7, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road”, in The Irish Sun, archived from...
- He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
- To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
- I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”2012 May 30, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2025
- “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”2017 February 11, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Emma Ludbrook and Tom Windish: Their First Date Was a Big Production”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020
valet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
valet in Hindi
- वेलेट
valet in Tamil
- வேலட்
valet in Urdu
- خادم شخصی, ملازم, نوکر
valet in Bengali
- ভ্যালেট, ভ্যালেটকে
More languagesFewer languages
- valet in Malayalam
- പരിചാരകൻ, വിയവൻ, ഭൃത്യൻ, കാര്യക്കാരൻ
- valet in Kannada
- ಕೈಯಾಳು, ಅಂಗಸೇವಕ, ಭೃತ್ಯ, ಬಂಟ
- valet in Gujarati
- વેલેટ, વેલેટને
- valet in Odia
- ଭ୍ଯ଼ାଲେଟ୍, ଭେଲେଟ୍, ଭ୍ଯ଼ାଲେଟ
- valet in Nepali
- भ्यालेट, भेलेट, वेलेट
- valet in Arabic
- خادمَة
- valet in Indonesian
- boi, boi hotel, boi parkir, parkir valet
Examples of valet in a sentence
- We valeted our car and entered the casino.
- You'd better lock up your belongings before handing your keys to a valet; some of them have sticky fingers.
- Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.
Synonyms of valet
Forms of valet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | valets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | valets |
| present participle | valeting |
| past participle | valeted |
| past | valeted |
Origin of valet
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Words formed from valet
Phrases with valet
Words that rhyme with valet
Questions about valet
- What does valet mean?
- Valet means a man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- What is valet in Hindi?
- Valet in Hindi is वेलेट. See Valet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is valet?
- Valet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce valet?
- Valet is pronounced /ˈvæleɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of valet?
- The plural of valet is valets.
Words near valet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: valet (page history and authors); valet (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valet (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valet (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); valet (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valet (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); valet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); valet (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valet (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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